Places deneez Wants to Go

Once a safe haven for locals engaged in blood feuds, this 400-year-old fortified tower is now a museum showing what life was like for those lying in wait within its walls.

Housed in a 1912 architectural masterpiece, this outlet of the Golden Arches is a real beauty.

Religious perseverance and cultural coexistence manifest in an architectural gem that multiple wars couldn't topple.

This dazzling Art Nouveau mansion is now home to the Modern Art Gallery Subotica.

These natural stone bridges are the largest on the European continent.

A hidden stream deep in the mountains creates one of the largest tufa waterfalls in Serbia.

This outcropping was once home to a medieval monastery destroyed during the Ottoman conquest.

Legends of treasure and spirits flow from this this fairy tale-like oasis.

A large concrete replica of a 12th-century figurine.

Lodged in the wall of this driving school is a Zastava 750, one of the region's most popular cars.

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

Once a bridge over the River Begej, now high and dry.

Despite being pillaged and destroyed a number over times down the centuries, this historic church still sort of stands.

A rich Serb hired foreign craftsmen to secretly build the castle of his dreams.

An abandoned cable car station located on the Danube stands like a haunted house above the river.

The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.

Seven early Christians were sealed into a cave where legend has it they slept unharmed for centuries.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.

A mountain pass in Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains was the site of four historic battles.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

These natural cliffs look like they are a part of an old castle complex.