Nafplio, Greece
Lion of Bavaria
This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.
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Nafplio, Greece
This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.
Nafplio, Greece
A staircase made of gravestones leads up to this church built into a giant rock.
Athens, Greece
A tiny Greek Orthodox church from the Ottoman era hides on a busy city street.
Athens, Greece
Savor sheep milk yogurt at the last of Athens' dairy bars.
Athens, Greece
This graffitied 19th-century building was a prototype of European industrial architecture.
Nessebar, Bulgaria
This fifth-century church is one of the oldest Christian sites in the Balkans.
Nessebar, Bulgaria
One of the world’s only pink lakes where it's possible to take a dip.
Tlaxcala, Mexico
Twenty-four works by the last great Mexican muralist tell the story of Tlaxcala.
Kaspichan, Bulgaria
Rock carving created 1,300 years ago 75 feet off the ground.
Stomoplo, Bulgaria
Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.
Nessebar, Bulgaria
Housed in a historic 1840 home, this museum provides a window into the lives of everyday, 18th- and 19th-century Bulgarians.
Nessebar, Bulgaria
Step inside this medieval Orthodox gem and travel back to the 16th century.
Balgarevo, Bulgaria
The site of many battles and tragedies, including the 40 maidens who leapt into the sea.
Moldova
This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.
Istria, Romania
Once a thriving Greek port, now a windswept ruin lost to time.
Wrocław, Poland
It’s a painted window that looks completely real, hiding on a building in the market square.
Wrocław, Poland
Relive a Polish uprising via an enormous, century-old cyclorama.
Wrocław, Poland
A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.
Sofia, Bulgaria
A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.
Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.