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This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

It may seem a little out of place in a tiny village, but the inspiring story of its creation made headlines.

Lodged in the wall of this driving school is a Zastava 750, one of the region's most popular cars.

The unusual sculptures are believed to be powerful political symbols.

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

A beautiful 19th-century mansion slowly crumbled and became a 'ghost house' after World War II.

In the hinterlands of Serbia's capital, a giant reflective mushroom houses an aeronautical history of the former Yugoslav republic.

Abstract monuments express sorrow and resilience at the site of a horrific massacre in Nazi-occupied Serbia.

Curious carved stones and bird-like wings are a symbol of Serbian resilience and freedom on the site of a WWII massacre.

This symbol of Yugoslav liberation decorated with 620 carved heads of mythical creatures is now a forlorn relic of another time.

An abandoned monument remembering the "Pančevo Holocaust" now stands as a shadow of its former self.

Serbia's master of striking memorials erected a forgotten, hidden gem in the hills outside a tiny village.

A grand Yugoslav memorial to the group of partisans who fought and died resisting western Serbia’s Nazi occupation.

This memorial park stands on the site of one of the largest mass executions of the Second World War.

This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.