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A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

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

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.

A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This iconic high-rise residential block was one of the last to be built in the Brutalist style.

This virtually windowless mass of smooth concrete is the only Catholic church in the city.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

A science fiction-inspired apartment building designed by a famous Spanish architect.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

A visionary Italian architect created an impressive cluster of concrete structures for a family's private tomb.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.