A monument in the Belarusian city of Polotsk claims to mark the exact midpoint of the European continent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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