Celebrated example of Ottoman architecture that also served as a site for brutal massacres.

The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

An apparition of Virgin Mary in Herzegovina.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

A Red Cross memorial museum at the site of the Niš concentration camp that operated for four eventful years during World War II.

Popular river that runs through the remote Serbian municipality of Leskovac.

The bizarre rocks of Đavolja Varoš are the result of natural erosion.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

Despite being tiny and rural this Georgian airport looks like a sci-fi boondoggle.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

Underground monastery and fortress.

Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.