Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

The place where World War I began.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

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

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

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

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

A monument marks the spot where the first Catholic missionaries arrived in Uganda.

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

Where the White Nile River dramatically cascades between Lake Kyoga and Lake Albert in Uganda.

This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.

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

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

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

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.