Places albacorell Wants to Go

Elaborate mansions built by Roma residents in Soroca to show their success after centuries of discrimination.

This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.

The largest wine cellar in the world is a 150-mile network of underground caves near the capital of Moldova.

Once the tallest building in Chisinau, this unique tower is a relic of Soviet architecture.

Soviet-era gates guard an unexpected urban forest—and a future U.S. embassy.

Artist Veaceslav Jiglițchi brings a connection to Chișinău through works of art.

This oversized tribute to the nation's tiniest coin highlights the value of small contributions.

A vivid and terrifying mural blends pop-culture-style depictions of Hell with traditional Orthodox imagery.

A statue dedicated to the founders of communism.

At less than four inches in height, this iconic fictional character is the smallest public statue in all of Moldova.

Once built to inspire young Soviet minds through astronomy, this dome now stands as a quiet relic of a vanished era.

There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.

This 13th century Orthodox monastery is built right into the Moldovan cliffside.

A haunted outpost in Moldova, where guards are said to have fired at a ghostly figure.

A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

Positioned outside a church, this sinister folkloric figure incited protests in both 1902 and 2002.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

1,500 Commonwealth servicemen of World War II are buried or commemorated in this cemetery.

This collection of artifacts represents one family's mission to record the horrors of World War II inflicted on their hometown.

A mystery of a buried artist and a 14th-century church.

Nestled in the hills of Crete, a local artist has created a wonderland of stone and terracotta sculptures.