Places tristanpollock Wants to Go

Thousands of artifacts tell Mongolia's military history, from the Bronze Age to the present.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

This memorial park stands on the site of one of the largest mass executions of the Second World War.

Popular river that runs through the remote Serbian municipality of Leskovac.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

The complex has been abandoned since the Croatian War of Independence, barring a stint as a set for 'Game of Thrones.'

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

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

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

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.

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

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

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

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

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

On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.

Gigantic water vessel, permanently grounded in Southern Albania.

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

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.