Places BalkanTurist Wants to Go

This lucky bronze frog was gifted to Madrid by a casino.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The designer of this railway tunnel added a birthday present for himself.

The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.

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

This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.

This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.

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

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

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

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