Tirana, Albania
Pyramid of Tirana
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
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Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
These barriers stand as stark reminders of Northern Ireland's troubled past.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Originally commissioned as a sculpture to reflect the history of Belfast's red-light district, the final sculpture has been banned from Belfast public land.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
The last Victorian market in Belfast.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
The statue honors a beloved bird that once roamed St. George's Market.
Istanbul, Turkey
A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.
Istanbul, Turkey
This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.
Istanbul, Turkey
Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.
Istanbul, Turkey
A tiny park in the middle of some big power politics.
Istanbul, Turkey
A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.
Tirana, Albania
What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?
Tirana, Albania
A memorial to the atrocities of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.
Shumen, Bulgaria
This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.
Békéscsaba, Hungary
The ruins of an early 1900s neo-Baroque mansion sit nestled in a local park in the Hungarian plains.
Szabadkígyós, Hungary
This castle was designed to have as many windows as there are days in the year.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.
Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria
A rebuilt Roman city that was once the largest Roman settlement in the region.
Vienna, Austria
This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.
Vienna, Austria
Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.
Vienna, Austria
The first modernist church in Europe.
Dublin, Ireland
The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.
Coleraine, Northern Ireland
This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.
County Donegal, Ireland
You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.
County Derry, Northern Ireland
A museum dedicated to the tragedy of Bloody Sunday.