Communist Architecture in Bulgaria

A Soviet-style monument, built after transferring the remains of heroes from their graves.

While it would not look out of place among Serbian spomeniks, this massive Bulgarian monument commemorates one of their defeats.

Now a ruin, this grand resort was coveted by a communist autocrat and an eccentric Japanese golfer.

A decaying, yet still functioning, work of communist architecture.

Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.

An unfinished complex built for children from around the world sits abandoned on the Black Sea coastline.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.