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A unique museum dedicated to the history of household appliances from across the globe.

Dozens of Soviet-era trains and carriages fill this outdoor museum.

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

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

Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

A decommissioned Soviet airplane has been used as a movie theater and a cultural center.

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

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

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

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

Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

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

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.

The largest hydroelectric project in Laos created this eerie landscape.

This Khmer temple is named after a young woman who sacrificed herself to protect the city from a disastrous deluge.

This mysterious tower is said to enshrine a dormant seven-headed serpent that once protected Vientiane from destruction.

A quaint village where bomb casings from the Second Indochina War have been repurposed into mundane objects.

This ruined temple's giant Buddha statue bears the scars of the Second Indochina War.

When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.