Places Theexploringcat Wants to Go

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Gigantic Romanian salt mines used to heal respiratory conditions.

A collection of items from a way of life that no longer exists.

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

An unexpected ghost village lurks on the southeast coast of Tenerife.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

A forest park outside Tallinn full of architectural and artistic curiosities.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

This striking memorial is one of Estonia’s most controversial Soviet leftovers.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

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

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

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

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

One artist's collection of homemade handicrafts doubles as a monument to 20th-century material culture.

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.

Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.