Places Kevsky Wants to Go

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

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

An unusual museum home to a vast collection of items that represent everyday life.

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

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

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

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

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

Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

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.

Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

Back in the tiny USSR.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.