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Vladas U

A traveller, a guide and an adventurer. If you have any question concerning Eastern Europe, I am the right man to ask.

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Lidice, Czechia

The Lidice Children

The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.

katherineoharrow

Added by katherineoharrow

Tallinn, Estonia

KGB Museum

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

Melissa Marshall

Added by Melissa Marshall

War obelisk in Milan

Remnants of cone-shaped fascist bomb shelters in Milan.

Added by Giorgio

Bosco Verticale

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

oriana

Added by oriana

L.O.V.E.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

miramarco

Added by miramarco

San Bernardino alle Ossa

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Kętrzyn County, Poland

Bismarck Tower Ruin

This hilltop ruin is of the hundreds of stone columns built in tribute to the first German chancellor.

wdcom

Druzhnyy, Russia

Goliath Transmitter

The Russians still use the transmitter Nazis built during World War II to communicate with submarines.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Leninskiy rayon, Russia

The Kamera (The Chamber)

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

Dylan

Kuraginsky District, Russia

Tiberkul Religious Settlement

Home of Vissarion, the "Jesus of Siberia."

Added by ekoptev

Ostashkov, Russia

Alexander Golod's Pyramids

Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."

serflac

Added by serflac

Museum of Sin

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

ahvenas

Added by ahvenas

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Nelson's Courtyard

A surreal pile of colorful junk fills a small yard in an otherwise gray neighborhood.

ahvenas

Added by ahvenas

Verkhoyanskiy ulus, Russia

The Batagaika Crater

The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.

AaronNetsky

Added by AaronNetsky

Korolyov, Russia

RKK Energiya Museum

This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.

Mark Casey

Added by Mark Casey

Solovetskiy, Russia

Solovki

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Ulaganskiy rayon, Russia

Mushroom Stones of the Altai

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

SamM

Fort Alexander

A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.

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Kalyazin, Russia

Kalyazin Bell Tower

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

Kergin

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Yagodninsky District, Russia

Kadykchan

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

serflac

Added by serflac

Abandoned Marx Generator

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

Allison

Added by Allison

Dmitrovsky District, Russia

Young Pioneer Camp

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.

Darmon Richter

Added by Darmon Richter

Kronshtadt, Russia

Fort Zverev

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

Shchyolkovo, Russia

Star City

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

Trevor

Added by Trevor