A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

The deepest metro station in the world.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.