This giant squid sculpture sits near the spot where a real-life specimen was captured in the late 19th-century.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

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 ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

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

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

Padlocks cover this rickety footbridge with love.

The eerie burnt-out remains of a prominent building where 30 protestors lost their lives.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

An artful memorial to 4,000 fateful oranges.

Featured in one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.

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

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.

These stairs were built to accommodate royals mounted on elephants.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

A solemn reminder of the infamous World War II war crime that massacred almost all the men in a small Greek town.