Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.

A unique, playful portrayal of Jesus as a backpacking traveler.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

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

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

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

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

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.

Dedicated to the lives lost during a fatal stampede in the Nyamiha Station.

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

A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

The European towns of Brașov and Râșnov each have proud signs reminiscent of the Hollywood sign.

A fire once nearly devoured this gorgeous 14th-century Gothic cathedral.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

Remnants from a time before electricity.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.