This stunning mountain lake was named for a pair of tragic lovers whose statues stand at the center.

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

Remains of a station that only operated for one year.

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

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

A fortress built to pacify local uprising that had a stint as a Nazi concentration camp before becoming a five-star hotel.

The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Pripyat after the Chernobyl disaster.

A tribute to a Ukrainian heroine who went undercover and killed several Nazi operatives.

The medieval prince founded the first library in Ukraine at Saint Sophia's Cathedral where he was interred.

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.

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

It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.

One of the most valuable palace-garden complexes in the eastern borderlands—and one of the most haunted.

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

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

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

Welcome to the world's only museum dedicated to the Ukranian Easter egg.

The ruins of an abandoned church loom within a picturesque Ukranian village.

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

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

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

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.