It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

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

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

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

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

A surreal pile of colorful junk fills a small yard in an otherwise gray neighborhood.