This stunning mountain lake was named for a pair of tragic lovers whose statues stand at the center.

This unique Lady Liberty is one of the only examples of the figure sitting down.

This underground transport hub doubles as an art gallery.

The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Pripyat after the Chernobyl disaster.

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

This oddly shaped building is a surprising Soviet-era crematorium.

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

This hill is known for its connection to the occult in Slavic tradition.

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

World's largest crossword puzzle spans the side of a towerblock, its clues scattered throughout the city.

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

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

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

The ruins of an abandoned church loom within a picturesque Ukranian village.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.

Thousands of objects tell the story of a city famous for its tobacco.

A solar-powered primary school inspires hope and experimentation in a country ripe for energy innovation.

Stone pillars and a petrified wedding party in the hills of North Macedonia.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.