Places CL Tee Wants to Go

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

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

A chain coffee shop in Bulgaria that takes its Italian roots very seriously.

A crumbling monument to a now locally-extinct sport in Bulgaria's oldest ski resort.

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

One of the world’s only pink lakes where it's possible to take a dip.

This fifth-century church is one of the oldest Christian sites in the Balkans.

An homage to the medieval rulers of Bulgaria.

This apartment is a true time capsule of local life in Bulgaria during the Soviet regime.

One of the largest mines in Bulgaria is now home to a vast museum more than 100 feet underground.

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

Rock carving created 1,300 years ago 75 feet off the ground.

These natural cliffs look like they are a part of an old castle complex.

In a long-dry lake bed, these groups of massive stone pillars bear a striking resemblance to clumps of everyone's favorite fungi.

Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.

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

This ancient theater, restored in the 20th century, lives on as a venue for dramatic and musical performances.

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

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.