Places Emily Kemp Wants to Go

In the hometown of the Catholic saint and Nobel Peace Prize winner, a memorial dedicated to her legacy.

Artists made this mosque into a marvel of Ottoman baroque architecture.

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

It's unclear what caused the fire that led to this opulent hotel's demise.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

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

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

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

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

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

This picturesque monastery at the base of a cliff is a peaceful oasis open to all visitors.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

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

The place where World War I began.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

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.

This historic black and white monastery is one of Bulgaria's architectural jewels.

An abandoned sanatorium building from the early 20th century sits in the forest of the Rila mountains.

One of the largest mines in Bulgaria is now home to a vast museum more than 100 feet underground.