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These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

A tribute to a man who defied the Nazis until his last breath.

These Bullet-scarred bunkers are haunting reminders of the Spanish Civil War.

The remains of an encyclopedic sculpture garden later used as an internment camp.

This air raid shelter from the Spanish Civil War is now a museum dedicated to the history of the city's bombardment.

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

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

A museum dedicated to the former country.

Ride in 1960s style on the private luxury train Marshal Josip Tito used to travel around Yugoslavia.

One of Serbia's oldest luxury hotels and a nostalgic echo to Yugoslavia in the state's former capital.

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

An exquisite monument dedicated to fallen Partisan soldiers and anti-fascist fighters of Yugoslavia through symbols of gears and flowers.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.

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

The only quarter of the Old City not dedicated to a major world religion.

The abandoned shell of what would have been the Jordanian royal family's summer palace.

A monument to Cuffy, a rebellious enslaved person who became a national hero in Guyana.

A statue of the formerly enslaved person considered "the first liberator of the Americas" stands in the town named after him.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

The royal seat of Henri Christophe, a formerly enslaved man who became Haiti's only king.

An entire town in Haiti memorializes one man and his historic revolution.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

The former home of the famed revolutionary Pancho Villa is now a museum in his honor.