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A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

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

A decaying, yet still functioning, work of communist architecture.

A Soviet-style monument, built after transferring the remains of heroes from their graves.

A crumbling monument to a now locally-extinct sport in Bulgaria's oldest ski resort.

While it would not look out of place among Serbian spomeniks, this massive Bulgarian monument commemorates one of their defeats.

At almost 900 feet long, this is Bulgaria's longest suspension bridge and the only way to reach the small village of Lisitsite.

The Bulgarian royal family exclusively used this ornate, now-abandoned train station.

A massive cave once a secret military base is now home to thousands of bats.

Rebuilt several decades ago, its striking murals prevent it from being reconsecrated as a church.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

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

Crossing a suspension bridge above a forest is the only way to reach this 12th-century monastery.

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

These cascading falls resonate throughout the Bulgarian forest.

This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.