I am convinced that the Bulgarian countryside holds the Number Two World Record in sheer amazingness, surpassed only by the countryside of rural India.
I took this snap of a huge monument out in the countryside of western Bulgaria, far away from any town or village:
Unfortunately I don’t understand Bulgarian, but I also captured the quite lengthy text etched into the monument:
Update added 21. October 2017: A friend of mine from Bulgaria just translated this for me. The monument is for the people from Samokov in 1923 who have died fighting against the Monarchy and celebrates at the same time the start of the communism in 1944.