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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

The only quarter of the Old City not dedicated to a major world religion.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.