Bunker museum: In Tirana, a bunker near the Ministry of Interior has been repurposed as a museum — Bunk'Art 2 — dedicated to showcasing Albania's Cold War period. Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Getty Images ...

Convinced of an attack from both East and West, Albania built thousands of concrete-and-iron bunkers. Now, they are being repurposed as stores, restaurants, & tattoo studios.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in Europe's funkiest capital city, Tirana, where two of the largest bunkers have been ...

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Back in 2014, a five-storey nuclear bunker near Tirana, originally built for dictator Enver Hoxha, was transformed into a tourist hotspot and art exhibition space, showcasing artefacts from World ...

These concrete military bunkers – some 750,000 of them – are everywhere, from remote mountain passes to the middle of villages to olive tree-covered slopes overlooking the ocean.

The bunkers were abandoned following the dissolution of the communist government in 1992. While a few were used in the Insurrection of 1997 (widespread civil unrest due to economic issues) and the ...

Bunker museum: In Tirana, a bunker near the Ministry of Interior has been repurposed as a museum — Bunk'Art 2 — dedicated to showcasing Albania's Cold War period. Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Getty Images ...

W alk by the home of Albania’s former communist dictator Enver Hoxha in central Tirana and you ... and communist rule ended in the 1990s — Albania inherited as many as 221,143 bunkers and ...