Rome, Italy
Antoninus and Faustina Temple
An ancient Roman temple first dedicated to an emperor's wife is now a church.
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Rome, Italy
An ancient Roman temple first dedicated to an emperor's wife is now a church.
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Ohrid, North Macedonia
See how paper is made the old-fashioned way.
Montenegro
A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.
Kotor, Montenegro
These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.
Prizren, Kosovo
This lonely minaret with an unusual decorative symbol is all that remains of a historic Ottoman mosque.
Pristina, Kosovo
The site of a legendary 14th-century battle and a controversial 20th-century speech.
Pristina, Kosovo
An unfinished Serbian Orthodox church with 1,389 golden crosses planned to represent the Battle of Kosovo.
Prizren, Kosovo
A 14th-century Serbian Orthodox church that was once converted into a mosque under the much-disfavored Ottoman Empire.
Pristina, Kosovo
This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.
Pristina, Kosovo
This stone figurine was made more than 6,000 years ago and depicts a female deity of the Neolithic Vinča culture.
Pristina, Kosovo
A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.
Pristina, Kosovo
A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Gargoyle head that brings good luck.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A monument on the pavement marks the spot where two cultures that shaped Sarajevo come together.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A small museum built by a family that survived the Siege of Sarajevo.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This unique museum focuses on the Siege of Sarajevo through children's eyes.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.
Ilidža, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.