One of the largest squares in Europe contains an entire artificial island.

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

The kitsch mansion of the former Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu features a golden bathroom.

After sitting unused for decades, this abandoned communist infrastructure became a wildlife utopia.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

This Transylvanian church has changed its denomination four times.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

Soviet-era gates guard an unexpected urban forest—and a future U.S. embassy.

Once the tallest building in Chisinau, this unique tower is a relic of Soviet architecture.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

A haunted outpost in Moldova, where guards are said to have fired at a ghostly figure.

This Moorish fortress has guarded Málaga from the slopes of Gibralfaro hill for nearly a thousand years.

The gardens and chambers of this Moorish citadel conjure memories of the Alhambra.

A statue representing a lost Roman profession that was vandalized for centuries.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.