Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sarajevo Bobsleigh Track
A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.
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Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.
Ilidža, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The place where World War I began.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bridge that died in war and was resurected.
Belgrade, Serbia
Arguably Belgrade's only example of pure Art Deco architecture.
Belgrade, Serbia
A retro Yugoslav congress, cultural, and business hall built in the 1970s, with an iconic world clock.
Belgrade, Serbia
This feat of Brutalist architecture is also known as the Three Sisters.
Belgrade, Serbia
A towering spire in the fortress of Kalemegdan honors the victorious armies of Serbia during their struggles against the Ottoman Empire.
Mokra Gora, Serbia
An idyllic traditional timber village on a picturesque hill was built for a film.
Belgrade, Serbia
A museum dedicated to the former country.
Belgrade, Serbia
A misnamed well, with a deep dark past.
Bač, Serbia
A well preserved medieval fortress in Vojvodina.
Belgrade, Serbia
Destroyed Serbian army headquarters sits half crumbled in a largely revitalized Belgrade.
Belgrade, Serbia
A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.
Belgrade, Serbia
Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.
Shkodër, Albania
According to a local legend, this old castle could only be built after a woman was immured in the walls.
Durrës, Albania
The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.
Theth, Albania
Once a safe haven for locals engaged in blood feuds, this 400-year-old fortified tower is now a museum showing what life was like for those lying in wait within its walls.
Tirana, Albania
Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
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.
Pristina, Kosovo
An unfinished Serbian Orthodox church with 1,389 golden crosses planned to represent the Battle of Kosovo.
Pristina, Kosovo
This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.