For outdoor lovers, Europe's backcountry is a dream. The world's second smallest continent is the most centrally located and packs quite a punch, strewn with history and riddled with tales of empir...

From the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, which launched WWI, to more recent battles over Kosovo, many people associate the tiny Eastern European nation of Serbia with war and conflict. However...

Since emerging from the shadow of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the Balkans -- the title given to southeastern Europe, and named for the Balkan Mountain chain that stretches across Bulgaria and Serbia -...