This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

This Finnish town on the Arctic Circle is trademarked as the Official Hometown of Santa Claus.

This church also serves as a lighthouse complete with a beacon.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

Pigduck of Turku.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

A memorial to the atrocities of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.

One of the best examples of a Byzantine period monument in Albania.

A fascinating little project dedicated to preserving the charming historic doors of Durrës.

In this town's main square resides a statue of none other than the 43rd President of the United States.

Explore a traditional Albanian dwelling that pays tribute to the region's rich history.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.