Dedicated to the lives lost during a fatal stampede in the Nyamiha Station.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

A 300-kilogram egg sculpture that embodied a neighborhood revival.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A system of constructed rapids and concrete waterfalls in a linear park on the Slepnya River.

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 window into the luxurious lives led by the landed gentry of Minsk before the 1917 Revolution.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.