In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.

A memorial to the atrocities of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.

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

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

Gigantic water vessel, permanently grounded in Southern Albania.

6th century Byzantine mosaics preserved on a hill overlooking Lake Ohrid.

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

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

This traffic circle in a small Swedish town is adorned with a statue of a giant potato.

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

Here lies a legend of three sisters, all in love with the same mariner.

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

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

The cheese slicer may be a Norwegian invention, but the biggest ones in the world are found in Sweden.

Contrasting the old concrete courthouse beneath, a modern and colorful residential marvel has emerged, stirring both acclaim and controversy.

A memorial to 350 people burned at the stake for witchcraft.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

World's strongest whirlpool.

Few remain of these distinctive old trees that once served as natural landmarks for travelers on the road.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

Not quite the cultural gateway between China and Sweden its designer imagined.

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

This former peat factory was transformed into an observatory before being abandoned once again.