Places BalkanTurist Wants to Go

This unique structure allowed boats to bypass underwater mine barriers in the channel to enter the harbor.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

In Spain, the ruins of a Roman military camp sit along a flooded section of a river.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.

This column celebrates Rome's victory over the Goths, and may be the oldest Roman monument in Istanbul.

Step back in time and witness the fall of Constantinople.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Once a beautiful palace, this structure is now known as the ''museum of destruction."

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

This former guildhall with a bacon-like exterior is now home to a museum covering 600 years of Antwerp's musical history.

The ruins of this Dutch castle sit atop a labyrinth of once-secret tunnels and passageways, dating back over 900 years.

Modern art commemorates one of the first military actions of World War II.

These rare statues are one of the few remaining material witnesses to Old Prussian culture.

A mysterious emblem tucked in an small alleyway is actually the coat of arms of a heroic medieval family.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.