This unique Lady Liberty is one of the only examples of the figure sitting down.

This Ukraine alleyway has become its own little island of forgotten things.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.

This street has over a half-dozen names, all at once.

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.

Welcome to the world's only museum dedicated to the Ukranian Easter egg.

The eerie burnt-out remains of a prominent building where 30 protestors lost their lives.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

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

Padlocks cover this rickety footbridge with love.

Featured in one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.

An artful memorial to 4,000 fateful oranges.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

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

Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.

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

Elaborate mansions built by Roma residents in Soroca to show their success after centuries of discrimination.