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

UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.

A gigantic statue of a Russian soldier watches over the ancient city of Plovdiv, a prominent reminder of the Soviet period in Bulgaria.

An homage to the medieval rulers of Bulgaria.

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

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

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

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

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

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

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.