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A beautiful 19th-century mansion slowly crumbled and became a 'ghost house' after World War II.

Religious perseverance and cultural coexistence manifest in an architectural gem that multiple wars couldn't topple.

Destroyed Serbian army headquarters sits half crumbled in a largely revitalized Belgrade.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

Legends of treasure and spirits flow from this this fairy tale-like oasis.

Housed in a 1912 architectural masterpiece, this outlet of the Golden Arches is a real beauty.

The oldest church in Serbia was also the ecclesiastical seat of the region during the Middle Ages.

As of 2022, the 124 rooms of Kosovo ski resort remain empty.

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

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

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

An abandoned sanatorium building from the early 20th century sits in the forest of the Rila mountains.

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

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

Ruins of an early Roman Christian church dating back to the 4th to 5th centuries.

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

These cascading falls resonate throughout the Bulgarian forest.

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

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

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

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

An architectural marvel that spans the Arda River, and has stories of a haunted past.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

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