A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

Serbia's master of striking memorials erected a forgotten, hidden gem in the hills outside a tiny village.

Curious carved stones and bird-like wings are a symbol of Serbian resilience and freedom on the site of a WWII massacre.

This symbol of Yugoslav liberation decorated with 620 carved heads of mythical creatures is now a forlorn relic of another time.

A grand Yugoslav memorial to the group of partisans who fought and died resisting western Serbia’s Nazi occupation.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

Abstract monuments express sorrow and resilience at the site of a horrific massacre in Nazi-occupied Serbia.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

This memorial park stands on the site of one of the largest mass executions of the Second World War.

This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.