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.

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

Gorgeous views of Italian mountains and valleys form the backdrop of this unique open-air theater.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

An abandoned shopping gallery built during Fascist Italy tucked in the center of Palermo.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

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

A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

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

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

A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.