Places awesome Wants to Go

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

This unique museum focuses on the Siege of Sarajevo through children's eyes.

A small museum built by a family that survived the Siege of Sarajevo.

This unusual hostel provides a glimpse of life in a city under siege.

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.

Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Place with alleged mystical powers in Old Orthodox Church in Sarajevo.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

The place where World War I began.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.