Places est3rcita Wants to Go

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

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

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

Founded in the 4th-century, the town of Pernik plays host to the Surva Carnival⁠—a magnificent display of masked Kukeri dancers.

A dragon-shaped fountain that is said to dispense healing water—unless you're evil.

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

The Bulgarian royal family exclusively used this ornate, now-abandoned train station.

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

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

The famous springs of this small town still flow outside this historic building.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

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

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

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

This building has two facades of clashing architectural designs.

An interactive museum-like experience takes visitors back to 1980s Communist Bulgaria.

One of the largest Masonic temples in the world, created at the height of the oil boom in ostentatious style.

Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.

A quirky mishmash of Route 66 memorabilia and other throwbacks from the past.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

A 50-foot-tall replica of the infamous lamp from 'A Christmas Story' illuminates this small town.

Come for the fried chicken, stay for the history at Oklahoma's oldest bar.