The saltiest lake in all of Crimea is also the pinkest of the pink and teeming with life.

One of the cave cities of Crimea, built by the Goths in the sixth century.

Over 300 wood sculptures depicting characters from Slavic, Greek and Western folk tales fill this magical garden.

Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.

The Grand Mall in Varna hosts one of the biggest collections of Soviet-era paraphernalia in Bulgaria.

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

A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.

This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

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

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

Outstanding, eerie frescoes and decorations fill this 19th-century monastery.

Controversial site of what could be Europe's first pyramid.

A field filled with carved medieval tombstones called stećak.

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

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

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.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

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

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

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