After a long break, Spectacular Slovakia is back with a brand-new series. In the premiere episode, host Oscar Brophy teams up ...

Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia and once a nearly desolate ghost town, is one of Europe's great urban success stories. Its compact old town bursts with colorfully restored facades, lively ...

Anyone visiting Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, will find it hard to miss ... offer the best views of the city and the surrounding region. Remarkably, the otherworldly aesthetics of this tower ...

NPR's Rob Schmitz reports from Bratislava. ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE: On a map, Slovakia straddles the border between Western Europe and a region influenced - and more recently, invaded - by Russia.