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.

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.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

The monument honors the mountaineers who were part of Europe’s best anti-Nazi forces.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

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

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

Tucked in an urban forest, this restaurant specializes in homemade, healing rakijas.

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

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

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

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

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

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

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

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

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

This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.