Montenegro
Mamula Island
Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.
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Montenegro
Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.
Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bridge that died in war and was resurected.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.
Studenci, Bosnia and Herzegovina
There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.
Ston, Croatia
Longest fortress system anywhere in Europe.
Čapljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
An apparition of Virgin Mary in Herzegovina.
Split, Croatia
A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.
Lopar, Croatia
The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.
Zagreb, Croatia
Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.
Zagreb, Croatia
An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.
Pushkin, Russia
An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.
Moscow, Russia
The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.
Moscow, Russia
Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.
Oravský Podzámok, Slovakia
The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."
Čičmany, Slovakia
A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.
Berlin, Germany
A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.
Berlin, Germany
An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."
Gryfino, Poland
Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.
Krakow, Poland
Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.
Plitvička Jezera, Croatia
A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.