Nuévalos, Spain
Monasterio de Piedra
12th-century holy complex shares land with a natural park full of heavenly waterfalls and raptors.
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Nuévalos, Spain
12th-century holy complex shares land with a natural park full of heavenly waterfalls and raptors.
Campanet, Spain
This "flat geyser" bubbles up out of the ground periodically like a disappearing river.
Huesca, Spain
A breathtaking canyon offers stunning views and frightful pathways through an ecological paradise.
Buendía, Spain
Numerous sculptures set along hiking trails symbolize and idealize the relationship between man and nature.
Olvera, Spain
Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.
Wamba, Spain
One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.
San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, Spain
Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.
Tarascon, France
Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.
Marseille, France
Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.
Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.
Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A field filled with carved medieval tombstones called stećak.
Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Controversial site of what could be Europe's first pyramid.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.
Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Celebrated example of Ottoman architecture that also served as a site for brutal massacres.
Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.
Gnojnice, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.
Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.
Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Studenci, Bosnia and Herzegovina
There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.
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.
Željava, Croatia
Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.
Bran, Romania
The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."