Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

Dozens of Soviet-era trains and carriages fill this outdoor museum.

A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

A sculpture of graceful storks sits atop this fountain in Independence Square.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

This ancient structure appears Roman, but was constructed during the 16th century and was utilized until 1911.

Legends hold that these unusual rock formations were once a bridal party, or perhaps a group of hunters.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

A settlement that was stopped in the middle of construction, leaving behind paved roads, curbs, light poles, a stormwater drainage system, and even a basketball court, but no houses.

An arts and culture melting pot inside an old roadside inn from the Ottoman era.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

One of the most photographed locations in the entire city.

This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.