Lopar, Croatia
Goli Otok
The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.
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Lopar, Croatia
The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.
Podoštra, Croatia
Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.
Trakošćan, Croatia
This Croatian fairytale castle is slowly falling apart thanks to years of neglect.
Nebljusi, Croatia
A forgotten monument to Yugoslavian freedom.
Unsko-sanski kanton, Bosnia and Herzegovina
An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.
Plitvička Jezera, Croatia
A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.
Željava, Croatia
Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.
Zagreb, Croatia
Once a state-of-the-art tuberculosis treatment spa, these ruins are now ruled by paintball players.
Dera, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.
Zagreb, Croatia
This former estate of a fascist leader is now a burnt out ruin leading to a system of secret tunnels.
Zagreb, Croatia
This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.
Zagreb, Croatia
Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.
Jasenovac, Croatia
Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.
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.
Georgia
Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.
Dargavs, Russia
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.
Georgia
Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.
Katskhi, Georgia
Small church on top of a huge rock column.
Chiatura, Georgia
These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia
Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.
Akhali Atoni, Georgia
The second largest in the world, this massive underground void has its own subway.
Batumi, Georgia
A shipwreck named Desire at the shore of Batumi.
Sukhumi, Georgia
Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.