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Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Controversial site of what could be Europe's first pyramid.

Place with alleged mystical powers in Old Orthodox Church in Sarajevo.

The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.

Celebrated example of Ottoman architecture that also served as a site for brutal massacres.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

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

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

This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

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

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

The place where World War I began.

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

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

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

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

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

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

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

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.