Places G Pike Wants to Go

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

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

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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

This series of underground chambers contains Europe's largest subterranean lake that is slowly drained each day.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

An observatory with a 54-meter-wide radio telescope sits in the mountains of Armenia.

Destruction from Armenia's 1988 earthquake inspired an artist's sculptures of scrap metal.

This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

After visiting hours, this picturesque waterfall is essentially turned "off" to be used for hydroelectric power.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

One of the best examples of a Byzantine period monument in Albania.