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.

The deepest metro station in the world.

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.

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

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

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

A 300-kilogram egg sculpture that embodied a neighborhood revival.

Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.