The two-story palace in Kyianytsia, just 10.5 miles (17 km) from the Russian border, survived the 1917 revolution, two world wars, and the entire Soviet …
The Blue Lakes near Svitlovodsk owe their color not to some natural anomaly, but to sand mining: the complex of three (some sources say four) …
The icon thousands of pilgrims pray to in Berdychiv today isn’t the one its founder, Janusz Tyszkiewicz, gave the monastery in 1642. The original 16th-century …
The castle stands in the center of the small town of Zolotyi Potik. Residents’ houses sit almost right up against its walls. No ticket booth, …
Somewhere between Drohobych and Skole, among the forested slopes of the Skole Beskids, columns of sandstone suddenly rise from the ground. Up to 285 ft …
Cherepashyntsi Quarry gets called the “Vinnytsia Maldives” for its turquoise water and pale shores, but underneath that picture is a former granite pit that mining …
The Salt Lake in Kharkiv Oblast isn’t a natural body of water — it’s the result of an industrial accident. In 1962, drillers near Antonivka …
You can’t drive all the way to the Blue Lagoon in Transcarpathia: the final stretch is on foot along a forest road that turns to …
In 1716, Peter I granted the village of Sokyryntsi to the Galagan family — as a reward for treason. Colonel Hnat Galagan of Pryluky switched …
In 1890 quarrying of labradorite, gabbro and grey granite began here. For a hundred years the quarry was one of the largest enterprises in the …
The name sounds like a joke. But when you see the colour of the water for the first time, you understand why no one has …