Places Akusaru Wants to Go

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

Underwater roads undetectable from the surface used for escape routes from foreign invaders.

A century-old prison in the heart of Vilnius is now a lively bar, dance club, and artist residency.

This striking structure is the Socialist-modernist centerpiece of a former Soviet spa resort.

You would never guess that before World War II this lonely field was a bustling German city.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

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

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

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

A decommissioned Soviet airplane has been used as a movie theater and a cultural center.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

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

An artful memorial to 4,000 fateful oranges.

Built in the Soviet era, this cableway system still runs gondolas from Odessa down to Otrada Beach.

A unique Soviet mosaic preserved on the facade of a shoe factory in Lviv.

The eerie burnt-out remains of a prominent building where 30 protestors lost their lives.

One of the largest remaining ancient burial mounds of the 10th century.