This stone figurine was made more than 6,000 years ago and depicts a female deity of the Neolithic Vinča culture.

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

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

An arts and culture melting pot inside an old roadside inn from the Ottoman era.

One of the most photographed locations in the entire city.

The only Ottoman Mosque in Attica outside central Athens.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

According to a local legend, this old castle could only be built after a woman was immured in the walls.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

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

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

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

This unusual hostel provides a glimpse of life in a city under siege.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

The place where World War I began.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

A monument on the pavement marks the spot where two cultures that shaped Sarajevo come together.

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.