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

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

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

An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

Stone pillars and a petrified wedding party in the hills of North Macedonia.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

A solar-powered primary school inspires hope and experimentation in a country ripe for energy innovation.

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

Lions carved into the rockface adorn these two tombs built into the mountains of Dadan.

The rocks around this mountain are filled with so many carvings that the area became known as the "open library."

This ice cream parlor serves scoops of flavors like rakia, medlar, and poppy seed.

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

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

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

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

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

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

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

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

According to a local legend, this old castle could only be built after a woman was immured in the walls.

The smaller of the three towers of San Marino is a former prison inaccessible from the ground level.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

This memorial to local World War II heroes is slowly being reclaimed by nature.