Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This impressive castle looms over small German town.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A crumbling World War I fort that is reached through a series of concrete tunnels.

The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

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

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

Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

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.

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

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

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

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