2 Hidden Destinations in Europe

Romania

Destinations

The Drowned Church of Geamăna

Romania · Alba County

In the heart of Romania, a picturesque village was deliberately sacrificed to a rising tide of toxic mining waste, leaving only its church steeple to hauntingly drift above a crimson, metallic lake.

This macabre modern Atlantis was intentionally submerged in the late 1970s to serve as a tailings pond for the nearby Roşia Poieni copper mi...

Salina Turda

Romania · Cluj County

Beneath the Transylvanian earth, an ancient salt mine has been transformed into a subterranean sci-fi amusement park, complete with a Ferris wheel, bowling alley, and a lake with rowboats, all 120 meters deep.

Descending into Salina Turda is like stepping onto another planet, with colossal caverns carved by centuries of salt mining now housing an o...