Karaman, Cyprus
Saint Hilarion Castle
The ruins of a fairytale castle with a tumultuous history stand high atop the mountains.
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Karaman, Cyprus
The ruins of a fairytale castle with a tumultuous history stand high atop the mountains.
Cyprus
This museum in a shuttered train station remembers the island's forgotten rail system.
Paphos, Cyprus
An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.
Lagoudera, Cyprus
Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.
Egkomi, Cyprus
This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.
Nicosia, Cyprus
A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.
Larnaca, Cyprus
The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.
Paphos, Cyprus
The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.
Hum Košnički, Croatia
This beautiful Croatian fortress is haunted by legends of forbidden love.
Split, Croatia
When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.
Nebljusi, Croatia
A forgotten monument to Yugoslavian freedom.
Rijeka, Croatia
Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.
Lopar, Croatia
The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.
Korčula, Croatia
When Croatia became independent of Yugoslavia, the splintering governments left behind these concrete tunnels.
Vis, Croatia
Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.
Zrenj, Croatia
Croatia's "hairy stone" fortress is one of the most well preserved Istrian castles.
Ston, Croatia
Longest fortress system anywhere in Europe.
Zagreb, Croatia
This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.
Podoštra, Croatia
Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
The complex has been abandoned since the Croatian War of Independence, barring a stint as a set for 'Game of Thrones.'
Duzluk, Croatia
Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.
Malička, Croatia
This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.
Malinska, Croatia
This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.
Podgarić, Croatia
This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.