Places Vlado Wants to Go

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

This fresco-covered medieval monastery hangs from the side of a steep cliff.

This mesmerizing medieval monastery-cave complex sits thousands of feet above ground overlooking a valley.

A well preserved medieval fortress in Vojvodina.

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

A grand Yugoslav memorial to the group of partisans who fought and died resisting western Serbia’s Nazi occupation.

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

The bizarre rocks of Đavolja Varoš are the result of natural erosion.

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

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

Legends of treasure and spirits flow from this this fairy tale-like oasis.

The first European statue dedicated to the legendary musician.

A beautiful 19th-century mansion slowly crumbled and became a 'ghost house' after World War II.

Once a beautiful palace, this structure is now known as the ''museum of destruction."

A maze of underground tunnels beneath one of the most beautiful forts in Serbia.

Once a bridge over the River Begej, now high and dry.

A tribute to a man who defied the Nazis until his last breath.

An eerie, protected forest of old-growth oak trees, many of which are now dead.

An abandoned monument remembering the "Pančevo Holocaust" now stands as a shadow of its former self.

A misnamed well, with a deep dark past.

Tucked in an urban forest, this restaurant specializes in homemade, healing rakijas.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."