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

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

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

Step inside a Soviet-designed nuclear power plant with RBMK reactors identical to the ones in Chernobyl.

An open-air art gallery that aims to share the stories of the people who live around it.

The first museum dedicated to exploring humanity's cultural relationship with the celestial world.

This magnificent Art Deco church is a reflection of Lithuania’s turbulent history.

Over time, this castle grew to encompass the entire island.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

An angel that hatched from an egg!

Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.

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

While this monument tile is shrouded in mystery it also marks the end of the longest ever human chain.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

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

A century-old prison in the heart of Vilnius is now a lively bar, dance club, and artist residency.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

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