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A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.

The remains of a sunken military ship wreck visible through clear water.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."