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

Special benches that play Chopin's music are scattered throughout his native city.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

Homage to the local produce now serves as a car dealer.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

A tribute to a Ukrainian heroine who went undercover and killed several Nazi operatives.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

Legend says this is actually a heartbroken prince waiting for his true love's kiss.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

This hauntingly beautiful cemetery outside a medieval citadel is full of winding paths and ivy-covered graves.

This oddly shaped building is a surprising Soviet-era crematorium.

The spectacular Roshen Fountain show lights up the night sky all summer long, until it "hibernates" under the ice waiting for spring to come.