Places Zrubi Wants to Go

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

Gigantic water vessel, permanently grounded in Southern Albania.

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

These abandoned salt flats are now a haven for wildlife.

Built by the Ancient Greeks, this chariot bridge is still in use today.

Once the largest rope factory in Greece, this abandoned plant now stands like a ghost of industry past.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.