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

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

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

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

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

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

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

Underground monastery and fortress.

Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.