This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.

A monument on the pavement marks the spot where two cultures that shaped Sarajevo come together.

This unique museum focuses on the Siege of Sarajevo through children's eyes.

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

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

Half of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's ashes were buried in Armenia.

Destruction from Armenia's 1988 earthquake inspired an artist's sculptures of scrap metal.

One man’s collection of photography books has transformed into a charming exhibition space.

This medieval manuscript collection has some of the most obscure and ancient texts in the world.

This little medieval church hidden in the center of Yerevan was lost and rediscovered—twice.

Despite producing just a handful of movies, a brave and lyrical filmmaker has an entire museum dedicated to him.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

A tiny park in the middle of some big power politics.

A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.