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The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

An underground city of salt.

Thermal springs at the bottom of this lake create beautiful blue circles of clay.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

A "station to nowhere" marks the site of a Siberian subway project that never saw the light of day.

These tiny cabins on a cableway have been carrying visitors at a Baltic resort down to the beach since 1912.

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

An enormous Soviet aircraft, the only one of its kind, stands at the deserted shore of the Caspian Sea.

A tea party concludes each visit to this Russian spice cookie sanctum.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

An art museum inside an active factory.

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

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.