The old fire station features a mural that has more to it than first meets the eye.

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

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

The centuries-old crosses "growing" in the cemetery are steeped in local lore and are believed to have healing powers.

Though it was heavily modified, fragments of the original medieval cathedral still survive.

An engineering marvel at the time of its construction, this cross-border waterway sought to connect the Black Sea to the Baltic.

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

A decommissioned Soviet airplane has been used as a movie theater and a cultural center.

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

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

A unique museum dedicated to the history of household appliances from across the globe.

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.

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

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

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

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

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.

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

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

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

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

A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.