Tallinn, Estonia
Old Thomas
The Guardian of Tallinn.
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Tallinn, Estonia
The Guardian of Tallinn.
Nottingham, England
These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.
Pristina, Kosovo
This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.
Pristina, Kosovo
A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.
Pristina, Kosovo
A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.
Krusevo, North Macedonia
Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.
Marrakesh, Morocco
This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.
Marrakesh, Morocco
Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.
Marrakesh, Morocco
Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.
Marrakesh, Morocco
Numerous impressive carvings are embedded in the trees lining this street in Marrakech.
Marrakesh, Morocco
It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.
Aït Ben Haddou, Morocco
A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families
Tamri, Morocco
Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.
Tirana, Albania
Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.
Tirana, Albania
What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?
Elbasan County, Albania
Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Chisinau, Moldova
This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.
Tiraspol, Moldova
A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.
Montenegro
A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.
Kotor, Montenegro
A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.
Kotor, Montenegro
These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bridge that died in war and was resurected.