Albania

An Ottoman town of white-washed houses stacked against a hillside under the ruins of a medieval citadel, earning Berat the epithet 'the City of a Thousand Windows' for the hundreds of multi-paned windows that crowd its facades.

A layered ancient city at the tip of the Ksamil Peninsula, where Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Venetian ruins accumulate across centuries on a tidal lagoon and the ruins of an early Christian basilica overlook the Strait of Corfu.

A historic Ottoman town of heavily weathered stone houses cascading down a hillside to the River Devoll, earning it the nickname 'the City of Stone' and preserving one of the most distinctive urban landscapes in the Balkans.

A cluster of small sandy coves on the Albanian Riviera near Sarandë, with shallow turquoise water and small offshore islands that have made Ksamil the most popular beach destination on Albania's coast.

A medieval fortress on a limestone hill above the confluence of the Drin and Kir Rivers near Shkodër, famous in Albanian legend for the sacrifice of the wife Rozafa who was walled into its foundations to ensure the castle's construction would hold.

A remote mountain village in the Accursed Mountains of northern Albania, reached by a rough track through the mountains, with a small church, a stone mill and traditional kulla tower houses set against some of the most dramatic alpine scenery in the Balkans.