Communism

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

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

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

A bronze sculpture of Lenin’s likeness outside Havana surrounded by 12 human figures in solidarity with the Bolshevik Revolution.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

One of the largest public squares in the world, named after the former DPRK supreme leader.

Shrapnel, dynamite, bullets and Franco couldn't destroy this bust, rescued and kept hidden as a family secret for over 40 years.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

Serbia's master of striking memorials erected a forgotten, hidden gem in the hills outside a tiny village.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.