Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

The largest park in Lviv is surrounded by a network of disused rail tracks.

This cheeky restaurant has a serious devotion to lard sculptures.

This underground transport hub doubles as an art gallery.

This exquisite, alienesque piece of Soviet architecture is being threatened by modern shopping malls.

Marvel at the excessive luxury of the ousted Ukrainian president's former estate.

A tribute to a Ukrainian heroine who went undercover and killed several Nazi operatives.

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

The spectacular Roshen Fountain show lights up the night sky all summer long, until it "hibernates" under the ice waiting for spring to come.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

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

The ruins of an abandoned church loom within a picturesque Ukranian village.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

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

This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.

A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.

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

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

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

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.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

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

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

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