Packed to the ceiling with antique taxidermy and hunting arms.

This bone-filled cave got its name after they found 140 bear skeletons inside.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

The Natural History Museum that time forgot.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

A fire once nearly devoured this gorgeous 14th-century Gothic cathedral.

This Romanian village may have been drowned, but it is long from forgotten.

This hauntingly beautiful cemetery outside a medieval citadel is full of winding paths and ivy-covered graves.

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.

Conspiracy theories and occult legends surround this mysterious natural rock formation.

A muddy alien landscape that is home to rare species of exotic plants.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

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

A mysterious tunnel hidden in the shadows of a colorful, historic sanctuary.

A mountain pass in Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains was the site of four historic battles.

Now a ruin, this grand resort was coveted by a communist autocrat and an eccentric Japanese golfer.

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

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

Founded in the 4th-century, the town of Pernik plays host to the Surva Carnival⁠—a magnificent display of masked Kukeri dancers.

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

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

Said to be the only museum in the world dedicated to the most classic of all blooms, the rose.

An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.

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