The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

Mine shafts and hard pastries await visitors at this massive mountain of salt.

This remarkable museum sprung from one of the most important prehistoric archaeological sites in the world.

A beautiful but deteriorating monument of Soviet architecture.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

The largest wine cellar in the world is a 150-mile network of underground caves near the capital of Moldova.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.

In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.

This mysterious, medieval cathedral remains unbuilt but fiercely protected.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.