This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

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.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.