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

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

The place where World War I began.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.