Places Remus Wants to Go

This Communist-era residential block is one of the longest residential building in Europe.

While the U.S. and Soviet Union were engaged in a space race, Poland built a UFO on the ground.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.

World's largest crossword puzzle spans the side of a towerblock, its clues scattered throughout the city.

Record-holding coffin moonlights as an eatery run by undertakers.

A spooky spot along the road where things mysteriously seem to move uphill by themselves.

The ancient Greek Titan guards this massive dam holding a lightning bolt to symbolize electricity.

The growing stones of Romania.

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

A gigantic statue of a Russian soldier watches over the ancient city of Plovdiv, a prominent reminder of the Soviet period in Bulgaria.

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

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

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

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

Last remaining nuclear missile base in Ukraine.

One of the world’s best microminiaturist, Nicolaï Siadristy displays his lifetime of tiny creations in this museum.

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