Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

This apartment is a true time capsule of local life in Bulgaria during the Soviet regime.

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

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

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

In a long-dry lake bed, these groups of massive stone pillars bear a striking resemblance to clumps of everyone's favorite fungi.

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

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

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

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

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Two beautiful Victorian-era parks replete with ornamental waterfalls and lakes.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

One of the oldest seagoing boats in the world can be found at the Dover Museum.

Its walls are adorned with exquisite murals of the natural world, transforming it into an ecologist’s Sistine Chapel.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.

An impressive armored bronze effigy marks the tomb of one of the medieval era's greatest warriors.

A defensive structure built during the Hundred Years War has remained useful in one way or another for nearly 700 years.

This strangely dressed taxidermy creature has a heartbreaking story.

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.