Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

The complex has been abandoned since the Croatian War of Independence, barring a stint as a set for 'Game of Thrones.'

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

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.