Wallachia
This modest museum highlights the important role of oil in the economic development of both the city and the country, especially in the 19th century when…
Must-see attractions in Eastern Europe
Zagreb
This storefront gallery in an old textile shop hosts a rolling program of exhibitions showcasing different art forms, from sound installations and video…
In the World of Fairytales Museum
Western European Russia
One for the kids, where they've smashed the boring don't-touch rules. It's a small creative space with activities and interactive exhibits based on…
Croatian Natural History Museum
Zagreb
This museum houses a collection of prehistoric tools and bones excavated from the Krapina cave, inhabited by neanderthals, as well as exhibits showing the…
Varna
Varna’s ivy-clad city history museum covers the post-independence period from 1878 to 1939, with mock-ups of long-gone 1920s shops and offices,…
Zagreb
Founded in 1986, this contemporary art space east of the city centre dedicates itself to visual art. It has a dynamic repertoire of exhibitions, lectures,…
Tsanko Lavrenov & Mexican Art Exhibitions
Plovdiv
For something completely different, this time-warp 1846 house has displays of 1970s Mexican woodcuts, serigraphs and copies of pre-Columbian art…
Northern Dalmatia
The little island of Galovac, just 80m from Preko's town centre, is pretty and wooded, and boasts a Franciscan monastery dating from the 15th century and…
Belarus
The impeccably restored Great Synagogue is Hrodna's finest piece of art nouveau. It's an early-20th-century reconstruction of the original 16th-century…
Central Montenegro
This fascinating large-scale 3D map was created by the Austrians in 1917. It's housed in a glass pavilion attached to the side of the Njegoš Museum…
Western Siberia
Take a stroll in the City Park (Svetnoi Bulvar) with all the students, new mums and roller skaters. If you get peckish, grab a snack from one of the many…
Western Ukraine
The obscure Regional Museum is worth a spin for its back-to-the-1980s exhibition and light-switch monitors. Highlights include some interesting Cossack…
Western Siberia
The massive Assumption Cathedral was rebuilt after the collapse of the USSR. The Lenin statue that stood nearby was removed in the 2000s – rumour has it a…
Gjirokastra
This museum houses local homewares and was built on the site of Enver Hoxha's former house, in the middle of the Old Town. Its collection is interesting…
Wallachia
The small, red-brick Holy Trinity Church occupies a quiet spot in a park behind the statue of Mihai Viteazul. The church was initially constructed in the…
Rīga
The shipping yard behind the Central Market is the latest district to benefit from a generous dose of gentrification. These crumbling brick warehouses…
Zagreb
This independent art space is run by the WHW (Što, Kako i za Koga?) curatorial collective, known for their probing of politically and socially sensitive…
Zagorje
The Way of the Cross is a path leading up Calvary Hill, with 14 stations marked with works by Croatian sculptors and paired with excellent vistas. The…
Plovdiv
Visible through floor-to-ceiling windows in the Tsar Obedinitel underpass, Cultural Center Thrakart contains extensive Roman floor mosaics and various…
Serbia
This small museum covers the history of Smederevo with artefacts including weapons from the nearby Smederevo Fortress and tombstones dating back to Roman…
Veliko Târnovo
This church, probably built in 1612 on medieval church ruins, was destroyed by Ottoman invaders, but restored during their rule in the early 18th century…
St Petersburg
The Red Banner Textile Factory is a grand relic of Soviet constructivist architecture. Street artists have commandeered walls around the abandoned…
Museum of Dacian & Roman Civilization
Transylvania
Down by the park, at the foot of the fortress hill, this museum showcases fragments of the region's ancient history, including earthenware vessels, tools…
Memorial to the Victims of Totalitarianism
Moscow
This humble memorial stands in the little garden south of the notorious Lubyanka Prison. The single stone slab comes from an infamous 1930s labour camp…
Western European Russia
Inside this cottage, the birthplace of writer and dramatist Leonid Andreev, there is a beautiful piano and examples of Andreev’s art and photography: he…
Mali Lošinj
The parish church (built 1696–1775) towers over the town from the ridge. Inside are some notable artworks, including a painting of the Nativity by an 18th…
St Petersburg
Karl Bulla (1853–1929) was one of the city's most famous photographers and is immortalised in this life-sized statue. Around the corner, his rooftop…
Bulgaria
Along the mall in a candy-pink building, the History Museum's three floors of displays feature Thracian silverwork, 4th-century urns and other…
Ulcinj
Right on the waterfront, this imposing stone structure was completed in 2012, replacing a mosque (destroyed 1931) which predated the Ottomans. The…
St Petersburg
The last neoclassical palace constructed in St Petersburg, the Mariinsky Palace (not to be confused with the theatre) was built between 1839 and 1844…
Bulgaria
Vidin’s cathedral is considered to be the country's second biggest, after the Aleksander Nevski Cathedral in Sofia, and dates from the late 19th century…
Transylvania
A stocky, 14th-century watchtower is the most prominent feature of this once-great fortress, south of Bologa village. It's a pleasant uphill walk to the…
Church of Sveti Arhangeli Mikhail & Gavril
Bulgaria
Dark-eyed saints with gold haloes glower down from every painted arch inside this 16th-century church, built over a ruined medieval building. The wooden…
Western European Russia
This jewel-box of a church stands near a cluster of photogenic late-17th- and early-18th-century wooden houses. Follow the road from the church to the…
Estonia
This branch of the Sillamäe Museum, housed in the Sillamäe Cultural Centre (a former bomb shelter), displays the museum's collection of artefacts from the…
Sakhalin Island
This museum has a modest permanent collection of pre-Soviet Russian oil paintings and Korean and Japanese textiles upstairs, and changing exhibits…
Western Estonia & the Islands
There’s a colourful little statue of the saint with his trusty axe in the niche above the door of this squat, whitewashed 14th-century church, just out of…
Zagorje
The city museum, in a baroque castle at the heart of Varaždinske Toplice, has a small collection of archaeological finds from Aqua Iasae. Its most prized…
Western Siberia
The attractive Archangel Mikhail Church has a colourfully restored interior. The character of Tatiana Larina in Pushkin’s epic Eugene Onegin is said to…
Western European Russia
This museum houses displays of local archaeological finds and explanations, in Russian, of the town’s rich history. The museum website has information on…
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