One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

One of the last surviving ancient Buddhist sites in the region, it escaped the brunt of several Hun invasions thanks to its remote location.

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

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

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

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

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

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

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

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

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

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

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

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

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.

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