Visit the Buzludzha Monument

Bulgaria's grandest mountain monastery.

Monumental, tightly-controlled capital.

Glacial lake staircase high in the Rila mountains.

The main Bulgarian ski resort under the Pirin mountains, with a stone old town and mehana taverns.

The highest peak in the Balkans at 2,925 m, a long walk up from the Rila lakes.

Ancient churches on a Black Sea peninsula, UNESCO-listed.

Visit the Solheimasandur plane wreck, a famous abandoned DC-3 on a black sand beach in Iceland

Sail through a narrow gap into the flooded caldera of an active volcano, past a ruined whaling station and beaches warm enough to dig a hot bath.