Sarandë District, Albania
Syri i Kalter: The Blue Eye
A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.
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Sarandë District, Albania
A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.
Raičevići, Montenegro
A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.
Sveti Stefan, Montenegro
This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.
Montenegro
A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.
Kotor, Montenegro
These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.
Levoča, Slovakia
Too much gossip or just missing curfew could land you in here for a couple of days.
Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.
Bratislava, Slovakia
This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.
Nairobi, Kenya
Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.
La Alberca, Spain
An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.
Córdoba, Spain
Spain's unique Mosque-Cathedral has been a place of worship for both Muslims and Christians throughout its history.
Salamanca, Spain
The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.
A Coruña, Spain
The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.
Antequera, Spain
Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.
Seville, Spain
The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.
Segovia, Spain
One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'
Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain
A Spanish town built into the cliffs.
Ronda, Spain
Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.
Erice, Italy
Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.
Calatafimi, Italy
This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.
Bologna, Italy
Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.
Rome, Italy
The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.
Rome, Italy
A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.
Rome, Italy
Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.