Abandoned in Bulgaria

The famous springs of this small town still flow outside this historic building.

An abandoned sanatorium building from the early 20th century sits in the forest of the Rila mountains.

The Bulgarian royal family exclusively used this ornate, now-abandoned train station.

A crumbling monument to a now locally-extinct sport in Bulgaria's oldest ski resort.

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

Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.

The social hall of this former factory is a Communist-era time capsule.

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

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

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.