An artful memorial to 4,000 fateful oranges.

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

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

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

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

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

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

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

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

Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.

This Ukranian fortress is one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Europe.

Elaborate mansions built by Roma residents in Soroca to show their success after centuries of discrimination.

The spectacular Roshen Fountain show lights up the night sky all summer long, until it "hibernates" under the ice waiting for spring to come.

One of the largest remaining ancient burial mounds of the 10th century.

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

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.

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

Marvel at the excessive luxury of the ousted Ukrainian president's former estate.

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

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.

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

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