An abandoned football stadium with a tragic past.

There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.

This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.

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

The largest wine cellar in the world is a 150-mile network of underground caves near the capital of Moldova.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

The remains of this castle, known as the Witch’s Eye, watch over the Thur Valley.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

A concrete plant shaped like four giant soldiers commemorates one of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic Wars.

The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

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

A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

This Latvian shot factory is still used twice a year to manufacture bullets the old-fashioned way.

The only things left in this abandoned Latvian graveyard are a mysterious stone and a ghost story.

These abandoned vessels are destined to be reclaimed by the forest.

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.