Places Populaatti Wants to Go

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

This feat of German engineering is one of the only elevators in the world following a curved path.

Four alabaster giants contemplate the tides on the shore of Denmark.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Giant wind turbine with observation deck at the very top.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Brawny guys rolling around in oil is the oldest regular sporting event besides the Olympics.

Massive, unfinished broadcasting station stands as a monument to the fall of communism.

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

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

An unfinished complex built for children from around the world sits abandoned on the Black Sea coastline.

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

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.

This oversized tribute to the nation's tiniest coin highlights the value of small contributions.

Once built to inspire young Soviet minds through astronomy, this dome now stands as a quiet relic of a vanished era.

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

This abandoned ship has remained in place since it ran aground in 1998.

Beneath an ancient wishing tree lies an underground chapel with 12th-century frescoes and catacombs dedicated to a lady saint.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

A chain coffee shop in Bulgaria that takes its Italian roots very seriously.

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

After sitting unused for decades, this abandoned communist infrastructure became a wildlife utopia.