Sculpture that doubles as a time capsule so that life can survive radiation outside Chernobyl.

A fortress built to pacify local uprising that had a stint as a Nazi concentration camp before becoming a five-star hotel.

It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

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

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

The deepest metro station in the world.

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

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

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

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

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

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

The largest catacomb system in the world.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Dozens of Soviet-era trains and carriages fill this outdoor museum.

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.

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

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

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

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.