The old fire station features a mural that has more to it than first meets the eye.

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

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

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

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

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

This unique Lady Liberty is one of the only examples of the figure sitting down.

This Ukranian fortress is one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Europe.

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.

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

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of the World."

Across this single-file rope bridge is what has been claimed to be the edge of continental Asia.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.