Akureyri, Iceland
Akureyri Heart-Shaped Traffic Lights
Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.
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Akureyri, Iceland
Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.
Iceland
Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.
Iceland
The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.
Brno, Czechia
A cheeky architectural easter egg.
Brno, Czechia
A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.
Brno, Czechia
This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.
Brno, Czechia
This strange statue depicts a young boy's body with an adult Mozart's head and a single wing.
Brno, Czechia
In this Romani neighborhood lies a museum dedicated to the culture and history of the Roma.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Maglič, Serbia
The ruins of this medieval castle on a foggy hill tell the story of a once-mighty empire.
Tirana, Albania
A memorial to the atrocities of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.
Zvërnec, Albania
One of 200 religious buildings recognized as a “culture monument.”
Škaljari, Montenegro
This World War I fortress is the perfect place to catch a Montenegrin sunset.
Niksic, Montenegro
An exquisite monument dedicated to fallen Partisan soldiers and anti-fascist fighters of Yugoslavia through symbols of gears and flowers.
Montenegro
A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.
Podgorica, Montenegro
Its frescoes depict the likeness of Marshal Tito, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels burning in hell.
Podgorica, Montenegro
This virtually windowless mass of smooth concrete is the only Catholic church in the city.
Ulcinj, Montenegro
On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.
Boljkovci, Serbia
A Hollywood-sign replica with a typo on a remote hillside.
Čačak, Serbia
This symbol of Yugoslav liberation decorated with 620 carved heads of mythical creatures is now a forlorn relic of another time.
Petrovaradin, Serbia
Backwards hour and minute hands and a timing mechanism that fluctuates with the temperature led to this clock tower's local nickname.
Beočin, Serbia
A beautiful 19th-century mansion slowly crumbled and became a 'ghost house' after World War II.
Përmet District, Albania
A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.
Thessaloniki, Greece
This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.