Built to ward off Napoleon's army, this city-sized abandoned Russian fort is now perfect for urban exploration.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

The pyramid and dome deep inside the Dzūkija forest are believed to channel divine energy.

The two abandoned overpasses are among the largest bridges in Poland.

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

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

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.

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

Dedicated to the lives lost during a fatal stampede in the Nyamiha Station.

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.

A sculpture of graceful storks sits atop this fountain in Independence Square.

A window into the luxurious lives led by the landed gentry of Minsk before the 1917 Revolution.

A system of constructed rapids and concrete waterfalls in a linear park on the Slepnya River.

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

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