This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

If you don't look closely, you might mistake this sculpture for just another passenger waiting at the airport.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

A relic from the Industrial Revolution got a second life as a contemporary performing arts space.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

The Adriatic's most famous wind can be reliably experienced in the city's Marina.

One of the tallest lighthouses in the world also serves as a monument to the fallen of World War I.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

A peculiar museum that includes many drunken tales, a drunk driving simulator, and much more.

A World War II evacuation tunnel turned into a history display of Croatian state and people.

This 135-year-old weather station studied the effects of the climate on human health.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

A quirky roadside sign was the subject of a years-long legal standoff over highway right-of-way clearances. 

Learn the history of Dominican rum production.

The first official clock in North America, it kept time for the Spanish government of Santo Domingo.