Places wasik Wants to Go

This stone figurine was made more than 6,000 years ago and depicts a female deity of the Neolithic Vinča culture.

Ireland's only cable car once carried livestock across a treacherous strait.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

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

A tiny chapel and burial site lurk underground in Jajce.

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

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

One of the largest wooden constructions in Europe was meant to be a casino, but soon became an orphanage.

The oldest hydroelectric plant in Czechia is now a museum.

Climb a steep hill in 90 seconds on the second-oldest urban subway in the world.

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

Ride in 1960s style on the private luxury train Marshal Josip Tito used to travel around Yugoslavia.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

In oil-rich Azerbaijan, people bathe in the black stuff.

Azerbaijani ghost town, decaying after a war left it an armed forces buffer zone.

Spring that emits water and fire at the same time is said to have remedial properties, and sparked its own religion.

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.

Founded in the 4th-century, the town of Pernik plays host to the Surva Carnival⁠—a magnificent display of masked Kukeri dancers.

An homage to the medieval rulers of Bulgaria.

Men and special assistants stand by the road to sell the day's catch in this lakeside village.

An observatory with a 54-meter-wide radio telescope sits in the mountains of Armenia.

This small shrine is dedicated to the designer of the first Russian fighter jet and his brother, who became Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.