Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

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

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

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.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

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

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

The place where World War I began.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

This former estate of a fascist leader is now a burnt out ruin leading to a system of secret tunnels.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.