The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.

Underground monastery and fortress.

The centuries-old crosses "growing" in the cemetery are steeped in local lore and are believed to have healing powers.

An engineering marvel at the time of its construction, this cross-border waterway sought to connect the Black Sea to the Baltic.

Though it was heavily modified, fragments of the original medieval cathedral still survive.

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

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

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

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

A decommissioned Soviet airplane has been used as a movie theater and a cultural center.

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

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

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

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

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

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

Celebrated example of Ottoman architecture that also served as a site for brutal massacres.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Place with alleged mystical powers in Old Orthodox Church in Sarajevo.

The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.

A wellspring of natural Viagra found in Bosnia.

An apparition of Virgin Mary in Herzegovina.