Places grantavery Wants to Go

This stunning mountain lake was named for a pair of tragic lovers whose statues stand at the center.

Remains of a station that only operated for one year.

A fortress built to pacify local uprising that had a stint as a Nazi concentration camp before becoming a five-star hotel.

A tribute to a Ukrainian heroine who went undercover and killed several Nazi operatives.

The spectacular Roshen Fountain show lights up the night sky all summer long, until it "hibernates" under the ice waiting for spring to come.

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

One of the most valuable palace-garden complexes in the eastern borderlands—and one of the most haunted.

World's largest crossword puzzle spans the side of a towerblock, its clues scattered throughout the city.

The ruins of an abandoned church loom within a picturesque Ukranian village.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

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

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

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

The largest catacomb system in the world.

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.

Though it was heavily modified, fragments of the original medieval cathedral still survive.

An engineering marvel at the time of its construction, this cross-border waterway sought to connect the Black Sea to the Baltic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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