Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

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

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

A sculpture of graceful storks sits atop this fountain in Independence Square.

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

Dedicated to the lives lost during a fatal stampede in the Nyamiha Station.

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

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

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

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

A system of constructed rapids and concrete waterfalls in a linear park on the Slepnya River.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

These tiny cabins on a cableway have been carrying visitors at a Baltic resort down to the beach since 1912.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

This arch granting triumphal entrance into Antalya was designed to honor the emperor's visit.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

Gargantuan home of Russian science.