Albania's Cold War paranoia dots the landscape with 175,000 concrete bunkers which were built at great cost and time for the nuclear Armageddon that never came.
Communist leader Enver Hoxha ordered the 'bunkerizimi' throughout the country under his isolationist rule from the 1960s to the 1980s.
They were built in the snow-covered mountains, on sandy beaches, lush meadows, quiet forests and even within the grounds of the country's most famous hotel.
An Albanian tank passes a bunker positioned near the border with Yugoslavia during army exercises near the northern Albanian village of Morina during the Kososvo War of 1999 - thousands of civilians died during the ferocious war between Albanians backed by NATO and Yugoslavia
The bunkers were laid out in lines, spreading from central command bunkers which were visible to all the others to allow for communication through slits - guns would protrude from the slits and lights would shine from the central bunkers to signal to the others
A bunker sits on a cliff beside the azure shores of Lake Ohrid which ripples amongst the mountains that run along the southwestern border of North Macedonia and eastern Albania - the bunkers were built across the country, in every clime
A reinforced nuclear bunker sits high in the Prokletije Mountains - the Albanian Alps, also known as the Accursed mountains - the stunning snow-capped mountain ranges of the Balkans were not immune to the fears of the Communist regime who had the bunkers constructed high and low
Photographs illustrating the political persecution of some 100,000 Albanians from 1945 until 1991 during the former communist regime cover the walls of a bunker at a museum in the capital, Tirana
The tops of the iconic domes sprout through the flushing meadows of an Albanian spring in an isolated forest outside the city of Durres which lies on the Adriatic coast
Hoxha's breakaway from Nikita Kruschev's Soviet Union and hostility towards NATO meant he feared airborne attacks from all sides.
The head of state had the bunkers laid out in lines, spreading from central command bunkers which were visible to all the others to allow for communication through slits.
Their concrete was reinforced with steel and iron, and they ranged in size from small two-man gunner boxes to massive domes with underground networks for high-ranking party members and military officers.
A larger bunker sits on an Albanian lake - they ranged in size from small two-man gunner boxes to massive domes with underground networks for high-ranking party members and military officers
A horse grazes on the meadow beside a decaying nuclear bunker in the Albanian mountains -
