Tal, Austria
Green Lake
Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.
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Tal, Austria
Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.
Bärnbach, Austria
Bizarrely-painted church designed by a controversial artist.
Haigerloch, Germany
The atomic museum in the basement of this German castle displays long strands of replica uranium cubes.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.
Crespano del Grappa, Italy
This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.
Panguipulli, Chile
This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Binz, Germany
Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.
London, England
This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.
Podgarić, Croatia
This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.
Densuș, Romania
One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.
Dera, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.
Sarandë District, Albania
A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.
Melnik, Bulgaria
This tiny Bulgarian town offers a stunning location in the mountains and a storied history.
Caraș-Severin, Romania
Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.
Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Celebrated example of Ottoman architecture that also served as a site for brutal massacres.
Belogradchik, Bulgaria
Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bridge that died in war and was resurected.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Ulcinj, Montenegro
On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.
Montenegro
A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.
Kuršumlija, Serbia
The bizarre rocks of Đavolja Varoš are the result of natural erosion.
Pristina, Kosovo
A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.