Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

Stone pillars and a petrified wedding party in the hills of North Macedonia.

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

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

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

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

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

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

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.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

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

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?