Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

Things aren't quite what they seem at this mind-bending museum.

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

An engineering marvel at the time of its construction, this cross-border waterway sought to connect the Black Sea to the Baltic.

Though it was heavily modified, fragments of the original medieval cathedral still survive.

The old fire station features a mural that has more to it than first meets the eye.

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

A monument in the Belarusian city of Polotsk claims to mark the exact midpoint of the European continent.

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

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

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

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.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

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

This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

A wellspring of natural Viagra found in Bosnia.

Controversial site of what could be Europe's first pyramid.

The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.

The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.