These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A sculpture of graceful storks sits atop this fountain in Independence Square.

A unique museum dedicated to the history of household appliances from across the globe.

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

The old fire station features a mural that has more to it than first meets the eye.

Dozens of Soviet-era trains and carriages fill this outdoor museum.

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

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

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.

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

A monument in the Belarusian city of Polotsk claims to mark the exact midpoint of the European continent.

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.

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

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

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.

Crammed inside this grounded passenger plane is a bar that was once a Communist hang out and is now a ratty relic.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.

Once home to artillery, this garden offers more peace today than it did during its war-torn past.

A striking, modern church devoted to a nun who loved God and beer.