Places hjtore Wants to Go

Stone pillars and a petrified wedding party in the hills of North Macedonia.

One of the world's oldest olive trees, thought to be over 2,000 years old.

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

A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.

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

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

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

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

A small memorial to a deadly night in Serbia that shook the world before it was swept under the rug.

This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

Serbia's master of striking memorials erected a forgotten, hidden gem in the hills outside a tiny village.

Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

An unfinished complex built for children from around the world sits abandoned on the Black Sea coastline.

Built as an anti-fascist tribute, this surreal Yugoslav memorial became an unwelcome symbol after the Croatian war for independence.

A grand Yugoslav memorial to the group of partisans who fought and died resisting western Serbia’s Nazi occupation.

This symbol of Yugoslav liberation decorated with 620 carved heads of mythical creatures is now a forlorn relic of another time.

An abandoned monument remembering the "Pančevo Holocaust" now stands as a shadow of its former self.

Curious carved stones and bird-like wings are a symbol of Serbian resilience and freedom on the site of a WWII massacre.

Abstract monuments express sorrow and resilience at the site of a horrific massacre in Nazi-occupied Serbia.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.