This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

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

Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.

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

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

This oddly shaped building is a surprising Soviet-era crematorium.

This hill is known for its connection to the occult in Slavic tradition.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

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

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

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

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

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

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

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

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

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

Sculpture that doubles as a time capsule so that life can survive radiation outside Chernobyl.

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

The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.

These abandoned huts still hold the remains of an early 20th century Australian researcher's work.

Antarctica's only sculpture garden, it has art and penguins, but no plants in sight.

The bodies of some early polar pioneers are still buried beneath the harsh snows of the Antarctic.