Kosovo

The oldest mosque in Pristina, built in the 15th century and rebuilt in the 18th, it occupies the historic Çarshi (bazaar) square at the pedestrian heart of the city, with a slender minaret that is one of Pristina's most recognisable landmarks.

A Serbian Orthodox monastery founded in 1321 by King Milutin, its frescoes are among the finest late-Byzantine paintings surviving anywhere, housed in a church whose golden exterior catches the flat Kosovo plain from kilometres away.

Kosovo's national library, designed by the Italian architect Qamil Kaleshi and completed in 1974, its distinctive Brutalist concrete exterior is studded with thousands of small windows that have made it one of the most recognisable — and polarising — buildings in the Balkans.

The seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church from the 13th to the 17th centuries, set in a narrow gorge at the edge of the Peć basin, its four churches contain some of the finest medieval frescoes in the Balkans.

One of Europe's deepest river canyons, carved by the Pećka Bistrica river through the Accursed Mountains above Peć, with via-ferrata routes up the limestone walls and a dramatic waterfall at the canyon head.

A Serbian Orthodox monastery founded in 1327 by King Stefan Dušan, its massive Gothic-Renaissance church contains the largest surviving cycle of Byzantine frescoes in the world, set in the upper valley of the Dečani river below the Accursed Mountains.