Places jrsiesennop Wants to Go

The memorial gravesite of the young composer of China's national anthem.

You can still find your way around Suzhou with this 800-year-old stone map.

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.

A spectacular Bulgarian cave resembling a devil's head with a waterfall rushing down its throat.

This tiny Bulgarian town offers a stunning location in the mountains and a storied history.

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

An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.

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

Outstanding, eerie frescoes and decorations fill this 19th-century monastery.

The site of many battles and tragedies, including the 40 maidens who leapt into the sea.

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

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

Underneath this Byzantinian church lies a necropolis filled with ancient tombs and the ruins of previous churches.

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

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

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

Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.

A gigantic statue of a Russian soldier watches over the ancient city of Plovdiv, a prominent reminder of the Soviet period in Bulgaria.

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

A mountain pass in Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains was the site of four historic battles.

A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.

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