This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.