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Unusual Attractions in Kyiv

Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

Golden Gate of Kyiv

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

Rodina-Mat : Mother Motherland

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

House with Chimaeras

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

Museum of the Great Patriotic War

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

Peeing Colors in Kyiv

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

Arsenalna Metro Station

The deepest metro station in the world.

Museum of Unnecessary Things

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

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Photographing Chernobyl in Winter

A unique photography trip incorporating some of the country’s most remarkable visual experiences—from the markets and street art of Kyiv to hundred-year-old brickwork drains beneath the city streets, and from towering relics of Soviet might to a post-human landscape where space-age technology lies ruined in the snow.

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