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

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

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.

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

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

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.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.