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

The largest fountain in Bratislava.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

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

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

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

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

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

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

The place where World War I began.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

Réunion Island's highest point is a 2 million-year-old volcano and a paraglider's paradise.

At the foot of an active volcano sits a church miraculously spared by its lava.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

The birthplace of most all of Europe's space missions is here on the Dutch coast.

The struggle of a small Dutch island against the sea.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.