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.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

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

A system of constructed rapids and concrete waterfalls in a linear park on the Slepnya River.

The secret meeting held in this building would forever change the world.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

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.

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

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

A window into the luxurious lives led by the landed gentry of Minsk before the 1917 Revolution.