Moscow, Russia
Novodevichy Cemetery
Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.
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Moscow, Russia
Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.
Moscow, Russia
It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.
Moscow, Russia
Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.
Moscow, Russia
The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.
Moscow, Russia
This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Moscow, Russia
Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.
Dargavs, Russia
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.
Brest, Belarus
Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.
Odessa, Ukraine
Featured in one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.
Kyiv, Ukraine
340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.
Klevan, Ukraine
This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Sighișoara, Romania
This hauntingly beautiful cemetery outside a medieval citadel is full of winding paths and ivy-covered graves.
Sighișoara, Romania
Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.
Dubova, Romania
A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.
Bucharest, Romania
This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.
Sinaia, Romania
This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.
Bran, Romania
The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."
Hunedoara, Romania
This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.
Shumen, Bulgaria
This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.
Ardino, Bulgaria
An architectural marvel that spans the Arda River, and has stories of a haunted past.
Nafplio, Greece
This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.