Warsaw, Poland
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Museum
This biographical museum honors the groundbreaking scientist at her birthplace in Warsaw.
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Warsaw, Poland
This biographical museum honors the groundbreaking scientist at her birthplace in Warsaw.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Dublin, Ireland
The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.
Dublin, Ireland
Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.
Dublin, Ireland
A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.
Istanbul, Turkey
An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.
Istanbul, Turkey
A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.
Istanbul, Turkey
A tiny park in the middle of some big power politics.
Istanbul, Turkey
A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.
Stomoplo, Bulgaria
Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.
Istanbul, Turkey
Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.
Menston, England
Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.
Shumen, Bulgaria
This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.
Balgarevo, Bulgaria
Massive, unfinished broadcasting station stands as a monument to the fall of communism.
Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria
This apartment is a true time capsule of local life in Bulgaria during the Soviet regime.
Pernik, Bulgaria
Founded in the 4th-century, the town of Pernik plays host to the Surva Carnival—a magnificent display of masked Kukeri dancers.
Bulgaria
These cascading falls resonate throughout the Bulgarian forest.
Varna, Bulgaria
The Grand Mall in Varna hosts one of the biggest collections of Soviet-era paraphernalia in Bulgaria.
Arkutino, Bulgaria
An unfinished complex built for children from around the world sits abandoned on the Black Sea coastline.
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
A gigantic statue of a Russian soldier watches over the ancient city of Plovdiv, a prominent reminder of the Soviet period in Bulgaria.
Sofia, Bulgaria
A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.
Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.
Shipka, Bulgaria
A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.
Gabrovo, Bulgaria
A mountain pass in Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains was the site of four historic battles.