A small town Romanian cemetery filled with darkly humorous gravestones.

A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.

Something's watching you.

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

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

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.

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

This ancient theater, restored in the 20th century, lives on as a venue for dramatic and musical performances.

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

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

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

The largest wine cellar in the world is a 150-mile network of underground caves near the capital of Moldova.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

A memorial museum to the political prisoners who were held at Sighet Prison, once one of the most feared places in Romania.

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

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

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

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

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