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

The place where World War I began.

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

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.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

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

This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

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

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A 32-acre fun park dedicated to all things cheese.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

Peaceful gardens hide an underground torture museum.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

Hidden dwellings in the cliffsides of North Togo used by local Moba tribes to evade 18th-century slave traders.

A historic cemetery doubles as a museum containing hundreds of unique tombs sculpted by a single artist.

People have been scribbling on this massive chunk of granite for more than 1,500 years.