Oradour-sur-Glane, France
Oradour
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
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Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Lovagny, France
A suspended footbridge allows for traversing this gorge carved through the French Alps.
Odintsovsky District, Russia
A solemn, monumental, kitschy palace of worship honoring victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Moscow, Russia
A 360 degree battlefield experience.
Karlukovo, Bulgaria
The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.
Melnik, Bulgaria
This tiny Bulgarian town offers a stunning location in the mountains and a storied history.
Ioannina, Greece
Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.
Konitsa, Greece
One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.
Malička, Croatia
This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.
Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.
Željava, Croatia
Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.
Novo Selo Palanječko, Croatia
A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.
Nebljusi, Croatia
A forgotten monument to Yugoslavian freedom.
Podgarić, Croatia
This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.
Krusevo, North Macedonia
Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.
Veles, North Macedonia
This elegant monument to those who fought against fascism is inspired by the shape of the poppy flower.
Unsko-sanski kanton, Bosnia and Herzegovina
An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Jasenovac, Croatia
Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.
Dera, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.
Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Tomba, Montenegro
One of the world's oldest olive trees, thought to be over 2,000 years old.
Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bridge that died in war and was resurected.