3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A statue of the Soviet leader still stands in a quiet corner of Estonia’s most Russian city.

For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

Wars fought and wars won are remembered by these abandoned bunker ruins.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

Rusted cars, trucks, and buses form a fascinating collection of Soviet-era machinery.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

Five soviet prisoners of war were executed at this spot just days before the liberation of Norway.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

This Soviet statue is based on a piece of propaganda that's been elevated to national myth.

A sober museum housed in the original administrative building of one of Stalin's largest gulags.

A collection of Lenin busts and other Soviet Era statues sit idly behind the Semipalatinsk Hotel.

A modern tower, symbolizing the legend of a golden egg on top of the tree of life.

Beatlemania is still going strong... at least in Kazakhstan.

An entertainment center in a huge transparent tent.

Avenue of trees planted by cosmonauts before their space departures.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

This unique wooden mosque resembling a Chinese pagoda was said to be built without the use of nails.