Places maurverick Wants to Go

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

A gigantic statue of a Russian soldier watches over the ancient city of Plovdiv, a prominent reminder of the Soviet period in Bulgaria.

A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.

UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.

Outstanding, eerie frescoes and decorations fill this 19th-century monastery.

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

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

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

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

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

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

An open-air museum of 18th-century homes and churches transported from various villages in Southern Poland.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

The birthplace of a tobacco empire.

An elephant is carved onto the gravestone of a man who was crushed by one.