This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

Take a hidden path to the mouth of the cave to watch millions of bats swarm at sunset.

A quick and simple solution to Cambodia's train woes.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.

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.

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

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.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.