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An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.

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

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

On the outskirts of the small village, an abandoned grassy field glitters thanks to the white stones of an ancient structure.

At this 16th-century monastery in rural Bulgaria, visitors can also spend the night.

These cascading falls resonate throughout the Bulgarian forest.

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

The Grand Mall in Varna hosts one of the biggest collections of Soviet-era paraphernalia in Bulgaria.

This rose and lavender oil distillery still operates as it did more than a century ago.

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

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

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

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

The social hall of this former factory is a Communist-era time capsule.

The remarkably well-preserved final resting place of a powerful ancient Thracian king.

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

UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.

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