Bucharest, Romania
Arcul de Triumf
Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Bucharest, Romania
Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.
Venice, Italy
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Venice, Italy
This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.
Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Hungarian self-built castle.
Istanbul, Turkey
A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.
Argolis, Greece
This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Ravenna, Italy
Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.
Ulcinj, Montenegro
On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.
Raičevići, Montenegro
A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.
Trakošćan, Croatia
This Croatian fairytale castle is slowly falling apart thanks to years of neglect.
Krusevo, North Macedonia
Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.
Shumen, Bulgaria
This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.
Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina
These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.
Podgarić, Croatia
This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.
Malička, Croatia
This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.
Dera, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.
Plitvička Jezera, Croatia
A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bridge that died in war and was resurected.
Belogradchik, Bulgaria
Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.
Săpânța, Romania
A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.
Densuș, Romania
One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.