Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

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

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

Ruins of an early Roman Christian church dating back to the 4th to 5th centuries.

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

The skeleton of a whale that beached itself in this Irish town is now on display in their public park.

According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

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

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

Said to be the only museum in the world dedicated to the most classic of all blooms, the rose.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

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

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.