Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

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

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

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

On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.