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

Rest stops along this pathway offer some of the best views of the Acropolis of Athens.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

The European towns of Brașov and Râșnov each have proud signs reminiscent of the Hollywood sign.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

A Red Cross memorial museum at the site of the Niš concentration camp that operated for four eventful years during World War II.

Destroyed Serbian army headquarters sits half crumbled in a largely revitalized Belgrade.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Not your average Bosnian cafe — this locale is dedicated to the former Yugoslav dictator Tito.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

A monument on the pavement marks the spot where two cultures that shaped Sarajevo come together.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”