What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

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

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

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

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

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.

Destroyed Serbian army headquarters sits half crumbled in a largely revitalized Belgrade.

One of Serbia's oldest luxury hotels and a nostalgic echo to Yugoslavia in the state's former capital.

Two buildings named after their windows that make it look like a sea of television sets plastered to a wall.

A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

A highly-criticized monument in Budapest has become the site of a makeshift Holocaust memorial.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

A bronze woman in a stylized dress honors a courageous politician.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

An angel that hatched from an egg!

The European Union’s tallest freestanding structure provides radio and television broadcasting to half of Latvia.