When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

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

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.

Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

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

Rock carving created 1,300 years ago 75 feet off the ground.

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

This tiny Bulgarian town offers a stunning location in the mountains and a storied history.

The temple that withstood the Nazis.

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

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

The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.