Thessaloniki, Greece
Pasha Gardens
A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.
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Thessaloniki, Greece
A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A monument on the pavement marks the spot where two cultures that shaped Sarajevo come together.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.
Ilidža, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.
Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Carefully reconstructed after the Bosnian War, this 16th-century bridge stands as a symbol of the country's enduring multicultural heritage.
Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.
Gnojnice, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.
Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.
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.
Sierpnica, Poland
An extensive network of secret tunnels was created for the Nazi project "Riese."
Tallinn, Estonia
This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.
Tallinn, Estonia
During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.
Budapest, Hungary
A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.
Budapest, Hungary
From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.