The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.

Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."

This striking, historic hotel has major Wes Anderson movie energy.

This 15th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery also contained a school for illuminating manuscripts.

A maze of underground tunnels beneath one of the most beautiful forts in Serbia.

This massive monument towers over the city as a constant reminder of the lives lost during Algeria's hard-won war for independence.

A century-old stone hermitage overlooks this remote pass in the Hoggar mountains, surrounded by a landscape of eroded volcanic cores.

This dizzying span over the ancient Algerian city was once the highest suspension bridge in the world.

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

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

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

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

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

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

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.