Inside this mansion turned museum, the works of prominent Croatian artists are on full display.

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

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

One of the world's oldest olive trees, thought to be over 2,000 years old.

This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

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

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

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

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Tel Aviv's popular neighborhood went though endless waves of transformation.

This full-sized orange tree lives suspended in mid-air above the streets of Jaffa.

The only quarter of the Old City not dedicated to a major world religion.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.