Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

Ruins of an early Roman Christian church dating back to the 4th to 5th centuries.

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

A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.

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

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

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

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

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

In a long-dry lake bed, these groups of massive stone pillars bear a striking resemblance to clumps of everyone's favorite fungi.

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

A spectacular Bulgarian cave resembling a devil's head with a waterfall rushing down its throat.

The site of many battles and tragedies, including the 40 maidens who leapt into the sea.

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

This historic black and white monastery is one of Bulgaria's architectural jewels.

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

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

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

An architectural marvel that spans the Arda River, and has stories of a haunted past.

An apparition of Virgin Mary in Herzegovina.

Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.