Places Shastified Wants to Go

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

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

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

A tiny traditional village keeps an ancient method of beekeeping alive.

The old fire station features a mural that has more to it than first meets the eye.

A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.

A marker honors the brief peace found by a tormented artist in the fictional land of Kcymaerxthaere.