Zagreb, Croatia
Museum of Broken Relationships
Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Zagreb, Croatia
Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.
Pristina, Kosovo
A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.
Pristina, Kosovo
A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.
Dera, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.
Sveti Stefan, Montenegro
This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.
Mileševo, Serbia
After this medieval Serbian fresco was hidden for centuries, an image of it became one of the first to be sent into space.
Raičevići, Montenegro
A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.
Vis, Croatia
Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.
Kotor, Montenegro
These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.
Mokra Gora, Serbia
An idyllic traditional timber village on a picturesque hill was built for a film.
Montenegro
A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Gargoyle head that brings good luck.
Split, Croatia
When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.
Split, Croatia
The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.
Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Celebrated example of Ottoman architecture that also served as a site for brutal massacres.
Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina
These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bridge that died in war and was resurected.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Place with alleged mystical powers in Old Orthodox Church in Sarajevo.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The place where World War I began.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ilidža, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.