Trimmed trees grow alongside the graves like topiary tombstones.

Island wonderland for communist autocrats.

Just a few miles from Novalja, a strange geological oddity has left scientists baffled.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

The oldest arboretum on the Dalmatian coast doubles as the gardens of Kings Landing in "Game of Thrones."

An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.

One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheaters is still used today, but for less brutal events.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

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.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

The site of slaughterhouses that once satisfied Parisians' taste for horse meat is now home to a park and book market.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.