A two-way chairlift system between Zugliget and the highest point in the city.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

This Croatian island is for sale but no one is buying due to the dozens of accused Nazi sympathizers who were massacred there after WWII.

A full figure 4th century incorruptible saint lies in a glass coffin in Croatia.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

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

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

A solar-powered primary school inspires hope and experimentation in a country ripe for energy innovation.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

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