Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

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

A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

A relic from the Industrial Revolution got a second life as a contemporary performing arts space.

A beautiful drive through the foot of the Alps traces the path of 15th-century Turkish raids.

This small Slovenian town has become a magnet for microbreweries.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

This virtually windowless mass of smooth concrete is the only Catholic church in the city.

This World War I fortress is the perfect place to catch a Montenegrin sunset.

On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.

One of the world's oldest olive trees, thought to be over 2,000 years old.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

Just a few miles from Novalja, a strange geological oddity has left scientists baffled.

This beautiful Croatian fortress is haunted by legends of forbidden love.

The Renaissance-era courthouse is a relic from the fortified town's centuries of Venetian rule.

Built as an anti-fascist tribute, this surreal Yugoslav memorial became an unwelcome symbol after the Croatian war for independence.

A forgotten monument to Yugoslavian freedom.

A self-proclaimed libertarian micro-state on a tiny bit of disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia.