A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

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

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

These abundant, over-the-top monuments are so widely scattered that they define the entire compact capital cityscape, often leading to jokes about whether there are more statues than residents.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.

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

This unique museum focuses on the Siege of Sarajevo through children's eyes.

This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

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

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

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

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