Slanchevo, Bulgaria
Pobiti Kamani Stones
Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.
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Slanchevo, Bulgaria
Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.
Beli plast, Bulgaria
In a long-dry lake bed, these groups of massive stone pillars bear a striking resemblance to clumps of everyone's favorite fungi.
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
This ancient theater, restored in the 20th century, lives on as a venue for dramatic and musical performances.
Yagodina, Bulgaria
A spectacular Bulgarian cave resembling a devil's head with a waterfall rushing down its throat.
Sofia, Bulgaria
A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.
Karlukovo, Bulgaria
The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Place with alleged mystical powers in Old Orthodox Church in Sarajevo.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.
Ilidža, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.
Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.
Brda, Slovenia
The summer residence of a Spanish ambassador who brought viticulture to an impoverished region, sparking its transformation into one of the world's best wine regions.
Mojstrana, Slovenia
The monument honors the mountaineers who were part of Europe’s best anti-Nazi forces.
Idrija, Slovenia
This was the second largest mercury mine in the world and one of the oldest preserved mine complexes in Europe.
Bovec, Slovenia
A crumbling World War I fort that is reached through a series of concrete tunnels.
Postojna, Slovenia
The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.
Krujë, Albania
A temple dedicated to the 13th-century Alevi Turkish dervish credited with bringing Islam to the Balkans.
Tirana, Albania
Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.
Tirana, Albania
What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?
Elbasan County, Albania
Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.
Raičevići, Montenegro
A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.
Munich, Germany
German-style coffee and cake, just like Oma used to make it.
Taipei, Taiwan
This third-generation shop has been doling out bowls of tilapia soup since 1977.
Taipei, Taiwan
Movie buffs will love this Taiwanese director’s ode to film history.
Athens, Greece
An ancient Greek monument and a Byzantine church coexist inside this cave.