This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’s immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

Τhis feline monument commemorates fallen soldiers on a field that saw many, many battles.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

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

This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.

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

Christianity and Islam have clashed, yet here a Serbian Orthodox church and a mosque stand together.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

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

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

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

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

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.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."