This giant Christ statue was a failed attempt by Indonesia to dissuade East Timor from demanding independence.

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

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

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

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

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

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

At less than four inches in height, this iconic fictional character is the smallest public statue in all of Moldova.

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

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

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.

This Ukraine alleyway has become its own little island of forgotten things.

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

The largest catacomb system in the world.

This exquisite, alienesque piece of Soviet architecture is being threatened by modern shopping malls.

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

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

The deepest metro station in the world.

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