This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

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

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

One of the world's oldest olive trees, thought to be over 2,000 years old.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

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

An apparition of Virgin Mary in Herzegovina.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

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

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

A cableway for car transport.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

Gigantic Romanian salt mines used to heal respiratory conditions.