A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

This memorial to local World War II heroes is slowly being reclaimed by nature.

This World War I fortress is the perfect place to catch a Montenegrin sunset.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

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

This unusual hostel provides a glimpse of life in a city under siege.

This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.

A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.

This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

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

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

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.