Places yoauntie Wants to Go

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.

This picturesque monastery at the base of a cliff is a peaceful oasis open to all visitors.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

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

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

Nibble as you learn about Slovenia's longstanding tradition of making beautiful honey cookies.

Down this yellow brick road, visitors are treated to toadstool houses and massive mushroom sculptures.

This 19th-century fountain's namesake animal isn't what you think it is.

An abandoned Indian-inspired mansion.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.

This magical space partly designed by Antoni Gaudi is one of the best examples of romantic gardening in the Mediterranean.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.

A small artistic "graveyard" where clichéd expressions have been buried.