Places katmartian Wants to Go

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

This train station's platforms were built extremely narrow to deceive a rather arrogant government official

A stunning waterfall in the mountains of Romania.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

The Natural History Museum that time forgot.

Gigantic Romanian salt mines used to heal respiratory conditions.

This hauntingly beautiful cemetery outside a medieval citadel is full of winding paths and ivy-covered graves.

A muddy alien landscape that is home to rare species of exotic plants.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

No one knows who built this strange cave of worship or exactly why.

A habitable museum, or a time machine into Romania’s Communist era?

This snug medieval lane is one of the narrowest streets in the world.

A permanent woodland refuge in the Carpathian Mountains for European brown bears rescued from abuse and neglect

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

This enormous abandoned prison was once dubbed the "Bastille of Romania."

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

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

Stone pillars and a petrified wedding party in the hills of North Macedonia.

The ceiling of this cavern is dripping with multicolored marble stalactites.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

This historic black and white monastery is one of Bulgaria's architectural jewels.