Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

The deepest metro station in the world.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.