A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

17th century palace once a meeting place for politicians.

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

This exquisite, alienesque piece of Soviet architecture is being threatened by modern shopping malls.

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

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

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

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

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

This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

The deepest metro station in the world.

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.

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

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.