Places thebackmans Wants to Go

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

This abandoned prison was so notorious that its name has become a metaphor throughout Albania.

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

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

A memorial to the atrocities of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.

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

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

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.