All Places in Belarus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.