A radio tower with something unusual between its legs.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

An interactive museum-like experience takes visitors back to 1980s Communist Bulgaria.

Underneath this Byzantinian church lies a necropolis filled with ancient tombs and the ruins of previous churches.

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

An important message and optimistic splash of color in a troubled neighborhood.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

A new landmark that fosters cultural exchange between traditions.

Cave in which Miguel de Cervantes hid while trying to escape captivity in Algiers.

The original resting place of Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony's only daughter.

An extraordinary mix of Phoenician, Roman, early Christian, and Byzantine ruins beautifully set overlooking the Mediterranean.

This massive monument towers over the city as a constant reminder of the lives lost during Algeria's hard-won war for independence.

An unconventional memorial to the women burned as witches in Bratislava.

This cave complex might provide a link between the Neolithic and the Classical Greek period.

The site of the first medieval crusade that pitted Christians against Christians.

Rest stops along this pathway offer some of the best views of the Acropolis of Athens.

Historic beer hall in Bucharest with magnificent stained glass and a lively folk band.

A chemical factory damaged by two earthquakes and an explosion that became abandoned after bankruptcy.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A six-story, asymmetrical tower filled to the brim with scientific experiments.

This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.