Places Megan Johnson Wants to Go

This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.

This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

The place where World War I began.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

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

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

In the hinterlands of Serbia's capital, a giant reflective mushroom houses an aeronautical history of the former Yugoslav republic.

A misnamed well, with a deep dark past.

Despite being pillaged and destroyed a number over times down the centuries, this historic church still sort of stands.

A Red Cross memorial museum at the site of the Niš concentration camp that operated for four eventful years during World War II.

For over 40 years, this quaint little house has teetered on a rock in the middle of a river.

A sinuous path among steep cliffs creates a stunning sight in southwestern Serbia.

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

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

Gigantic water vessel, permanently grounded in Southern Albania.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.