This small bronze pyramid marks the center of Belgrade, but some say it is a Masonic symbol.

The unusual sculptures are believed to be powerful political symbols.

A museum dedicated to the former country.

The ceiling of this cavern is dripping with multicolored marble stalactites.

An unfinished Serbian Orthodox church with 1,389 golden crosses planned to represent the Battle of Kosovo.

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

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

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

A temple dedicated to the 13th-century Alevi Turkish dervish credited with bringing Islam to the Balkans.

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

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

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

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

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

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

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

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

See how paper is made the old-fashioned way.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

A fortress-like granary that has been continually in use for more than nine centuries.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

An abandoned film set location for a remote spaceport in a galaxy far, far away hides in the Tunisian desert.

A 15th-century granary that played the role of futuristic slave quarters in the world of 'Star Wars.'