The Communists loved themselves a giant, super-intimidating brutalist monument. Former Yugoslavia is littered with these brutes.

Dictator Josip Tito (not a terrible guy actually) commissioned thousands of monuments to commemorate the war efforts during WW2, but (being communist) he didn’t want to focus on one person or ethnic group so obscure abstract shapes it was…

Alien spaceship? Fallen star from a faraway galaxy?

The Kosmaj monument celebrates the 5000 fighters who died fighting the Germans in WWII.

Concrete angel wings? Two thumbs up?

This guy commemorates the Battle of Sutjeska, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II in the former Yugoslavia.

Limbless figures? Three fists? (actually yes)

The powerful ‘Three Fists’ monument commemorates over 10, 000 Serbian, Jew and Roma people that were executed here by the Nazis in WWII.

A giant bullet hole? An eroded fossil from prehistoric times?

The Kadinjača Memorial remembers the fighters from Posavina and Orasje who died at the Battle of Kadinjača in WWII.

Water tower? Bond villain HQ?

The Kozara monument or the ‘Monument to the Revolution’ commemorates the many victims of the Kozara Offensive.

Fallen wind turbine? Giant concrete ammunition?

The Knin monument celebrates the fallen soldiers who liberated the town of Knin in WWII.

The Eye of Sauron? A cyclops bird?

This lad celebrates the community of Moslavina during WWII when they banded together against Ustaša (The Croatian Revolutionary Movement).

As weird and out-of-place-ish today as they were when they were built (60s, 70s) they shouldn’t be reduced to the strange UFO looking oddities they seem to be. They represent human suffering, death and war victories for millions of people across Europe.

Fly to Serbia to get the lion's share of them.