The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This Greek Orthodox church houses the mummified body of St. Spyridon.

A spectacular Neoclassical palace is home more than 15,000 artifacts and works of art.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

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

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

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

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

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

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

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

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

This ancient Roman aqueduct once funneled water to Diocletian's palace.

In the hometown of the Catholic saint and Nobel Peace Prize winner, a memorial dedicated to her legacy.

These abundant, over-the-top monuments are so widely scattered that they define the entire compact capital cityscape, often leading to jokes about whether there are more statues than residents.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

An unfinished Serbian Orthodox church with 1,389 golden crosses planned to represent the Battle of Kosovo.

The site of a legendary 14th-century battle and a controversial 20th-century speech.