Places inesgmartins Wants to Go

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

This heart-shaped island looks substantially less lovely after a recent bulldozing project.

One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheaters is still used today, but for less brutal events.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

This Croatian fairytale castle is slowly falling apart thanks to years of neglect.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

Once a state-of-the-art tuberculosis treatment spa, these ruins are now ruled by paintball players.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

The complex has been abandoned since the Croatian War of Independence, barring a stint as a set for 'Game of Thrones.'

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.