This Greek Orthodox church houses the mummified body of St. Spyridon.

Once a safe haven for locals engaged in blood feuds, this 400-year-old fortified tower is now a museum showing what life was like for those lying in wait within its walls.

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

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

A temple dedicated to the 13th-century Alevi Turkish dervish credited with bringing Islam to the Balkans.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.

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

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.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

After witnessing the rise and fall of three empires, this ancient city was finally destroyed by a series of earthquakes.

Artists made this mosque into a marvel of Ottoman baroque architecture.

Depending on the region's rainfall, this church may be partially submerged.

These abundant, over-the-top monuments are so widely scattered that they define the entire compact capital cityscape, often leading to jokes about whether there are more statues than residents.

This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.

A 14th-century Serbian Orthodox church that was once converted into a mosque under the much-disfavored Ottoman Empire.

A monastery considered a state-protected cultural monument of exceptional importance, founded in the 14th century by Serbian King Stefan Dečanski.

A UNESCO-protected spiritual seat of the Old Serbian Kingdom and Empire.

This stone figurine was made more than 6,000 years ago and depicts a female deity of the Neolithic Vinča culture.

Christianity and Islam have clashed, yet here a Serbian Orthodox church and a mosque stand together.

An unfinished Serbian Orthodox church with 1,389 golden crosses planned to represent the Battle of Kosovo.

The ceiling of this cavern is dripping with multicolored marble stalactites.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.