This magnificent Art Deco church is a reflection of Lithuania’s turbulent history.

This underground transport hub doubles as an art gallery.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

The deepest metro station in the world.

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

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

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

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

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

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

The bridge that cost Germany a World Heritage Site.

One of the last remaining railway viaducts equipped with a transporter ferry.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.