A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

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

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

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

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

The tallest stone dam in Poland was opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II himself.

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