A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

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

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

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

A unique art center and shop just below a United Nations Checkpoint in central Nicosia.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

The animals wander freely amid this gorgeous stretch of nature.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

The ruins of a fairytale castle with a tumultuous history stand high atop the mountains.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

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

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

This unique museum focuses on the Siege of Sarajevo through children's eyes.

A small museum built by a family that survived the Siege of Sarajevo.

This unusual hostel provides a glimpse of life in a city under siege.

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

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