Places pattyannish Wants to Go

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A mountain pass in Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains was the site of four historic battles.

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

Outstanding, eerie frescoes and decorations fill this 19th-century monastery.

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.

A spectacular Bulgarian cave resembling a devil's head with a waterfall rushing down its throat.

The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.

A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

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

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

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

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

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

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.