Places ronni315 Wants to Go

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

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

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

Celebrated example of Ottoman architecture that also served as a site for brutal massacres.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

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

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

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

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

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

The place where World War I began.

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

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

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

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

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

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

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.

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

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

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

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

This heart-shaped island looks substantially less lovely after a recent bulldozing project.