Pristina
Easily one of Pristina's most notable buildings, the National Library, completed in 1982 by Croatian Andrija Mutnjakovic, has to be seen to be believed …
Must-see attractions in Eastern Europe
Yakutsk
True permafrost nerds might check out the Permafrost Institute, about 2km west of the city centre. It has a lab that stays a constant –6°C, but high…
Zagreb
If there's an exhibition on while you're in town, this cutting-edge gallery in the nearby town of Velika Gorica (18km southeast of central Zagreb by car)…
Latvia
You can't miss the Hotel Ķemeri. Known as the ‘White Ship’, it was built during Latvia’s brief period of independence in the 1930s, and has one of the…
Elafiti Islands
A cool retreat on a sunny day, this gorgeous little park was laid out in the late 19th-century by the great-granddaughter of Dubrovnik's last rector. The…
Dražen Petrović Memorial Museum
Zagreb
Basketball is popular in Zagreb, which is home to the Cibona basketball team. Pay homage to the team’s most famous player at the Dražen Petrović Memorial…
Zagorje
The Antun Augustinčić Gallery is devoted to his opus, plus there's lots of headless bronze torsos and a huge replica of his Monument to Peace (the statue…
St Petersburg
Opposite Gostiny Dvor, this palace (1749–57) is another noble town house by Rastrelli. From 1810 it was the most elite military school in the empire and…
Bulgaria
This art museum is housed in an elegant former military club on the southern edge of the city's riverside park. On display are some 1300 works of famous…
Zagreb
This small park hosts numerous activities from June to October, including live-music sessions, film screenings and family-friendly mural-painting sessions…
Western Estonia & the Islands
Hiiumaa’s oldest stone church, founded by the German Livonian Order in the 13th century, is worth visiting if driving through sleepy Suuremõisa, en route…
The Albanian Riviera
Vuno is a tiny hillside village above picturesque Jal beach. Each summer Vuno's primary school is filled with blow-up beds and it becomes Shkolla Hostel…
Central & Eastern Istria
Built by the Venetians in 1784, Buzet's pretty parish church has a pale-yellow ceiling with frescos, an elaborate pulpit and baroque altars. There's also…
Sarajevo
This 1902 neo-Moorish building is both a community centre and the main place of worship for Sarajevo's much-diminished Jewish community. Don't be put off…
Western European Russia
There's an amusement park (аттракционы) at the northeastern end of this leafy riverside park and a statue of the Russian novelist, Ivan Turgenev. You can…
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Originally built in 1857 to commemorate the victory over the British and the French in the Battle of Petropavlovsk, this wooden chapel was destroyed in…
Russian Orthodox Church of St Nicholas
Vilnius
Built as a Gothic church in the early 16th century, then restored in the baroque style following a fire 300 years later, this church was finally…
Fruška Gora National Park
This serene and welcoming monastery dates from the 15th century. As with the Orthodox cathedral in Sremski Karlovci, the iconostasis is the work of Serbia…
Split
Numerous sarcophagi are scattered about this part of ancient Salona, situated between the car park and the museum. It was a burial place for Christian…
Bucharest
A highly worthwhile museum, this one features Romania's varied geological formations, with enough English signage on hand to give you the general idea of…
Rijeka
To follow in pilgrims’ footsteps to Our Lady of Trsat, climb this stairway from Titov trg, built in 1531 for the faithful on their way to the church. The…
Bulgaria
Affiliated with Belogradchik's history museum, the nature department displays unusual local flora and fauna. To get here, proceed from the large, modern…
Northern European Russia
This ramshackle 19th century church stands on the edge of Lake Lekshmo, and was used as a warehouse in the Soviet era. Today it is only used for services…
Western Estonia & the Islands
Saaremaa’s highest cliffs run along the northern coast near Panga for 3km. The highest point (21.3m) was a sacred place where sacrifices were made to the…
Bulgaria
This small museum, arranged across a pretty courtyard, is divided between archaeological displays from Neolithic tools to late-Thracian jewellery, and a…
Lithuania
The magical powers of local mineral water can be tested at the Dzūkija Fountain, inside the Mineralinio Vandems Biuvetė, a round green building with…
Goldwork Embroidery Museum and Factory
Western European Russia
Torzhok is famous for its stunning gold-wire embroidery, found in artwork, insignia and royal clothing. There are exquisite displays at this museum,…
Permanent Exhibition of Dimitar Kirov
Plovdiv
Housed in a grand old-town mansion where Plovdiv's budding artists worked in the 1960s, this special place celebrates the life and works of Dimitar Kirov,…
Sofia
Set in a leafy garden, this church dedicated to Sts Cyril and Methodius and their five disciples was originally built as a mosque in 1528; it later became…
Lithuania
Šiauliai was home to some of Lithuania’s first amateur radio operators in the 1920s, so it’s a fitting locale for this eclectic collection of radios, TVs…
Nativity of St John the Baptist Church
Moldavia & the Bucovina Monasteries
St John Church dates from 1498 and was originally part of Ștefan cel Mare's Princely Court complex. It has a lovely but sombre interior. Standing in front…
Sarajevo
Overloaded with the white gravestones of those killed during the 1990s conflict, this steeply contoured cemetery is the final resting place of the country…
Estonia
Six rooms of exhibitions on Sillamäe, its shale-chemical factory and rural life in Vaivara parish await within this building, erected in the late 1950s in…
Fruška Gora National Park
Early records suggest this tranquil monastery was built around the mid-1500s, though legend has it that it was founded by King Dragutin Nemanjić (1276…
Tsar Aleksander II House Museum
Bulgaria
Sitting in a city-centre park, this modest cottage was where the Russian tsar Alexander II accepted the surrender of the Turkish general Osman Pasha after…
Constanţa
This striking statue at the centre of Piața Ovidiu is dedicated to the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC–17 AD), aka Ovid, who was banished to…
House-Museum of 19th- & 20th-Century History
Western Siberia
This museum contains artefacts from Tyumen’s past and is housed in the city’s finest carved cottage. The best way to experience the museum is by taking…
Berat
Perched on a cliff ledge below the castle is the artfully positioned 14th-century chapel of St Michael, best viewed from the Gorica quarter across the…
Wallachia
The unusual St George’s Church (Biserica Sfântul Gheorghe), more commonly known as the Princely Church, was built by Prince Constantin Şerban and his wife…
Western European Russia
Housed in a grey-painted 18th-century wooden building, this museum contains various exhibits relating to Russia's ubiquitous Pushkin. On display you'll…
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