When you read about war—whether in the news or in a history textbook—it usually comes down to dry numbers and facts. So many people died, this or that location was liberated. I guess that's how historians have to study it. But from a human perspective, it doesn't really show what people caught in the middle of these events actually go through.

In Sarajevo's Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide, they've tried to show the Bosnian War through the eyes of ordinary residents. The exhibition isn't huge, but it's filled with small stories from everyday people who witnessed it firsthand. Often heartbreakingly brutal, but sometimes incredibly moving.

And there's a room that really restores your faith in humanity—where any visitor can make and leave their own sticker.

Then you step out, still emotional from what you've seen, and there's just a regular street outside where everyone's rushing around and life goes on as usual. I really wish it was like that everywhere.