Dubrovnik at night

Dubrovnik's rainy alleys and streets at 1am. It was perhaps the most beautiful city I have visited, "the pearl of the Adriatic," as Byron called it. The entire town is hewn from white marble and stone. You can tour the formidable ancient city walls which encircle it and look out over a maze of winding streets and orange tiled rooves.

The city was shelled mercilessly by the Serbian navy during the war, even though it was far from the frontlines and had zero military importance. Unlike Sarajevo, however, the scars of war are almost entirely absent, repaired by the constant, massive cash influx from the nearly unbearable tourist hordes.