Belarus

A nineteenth-century canal connecting the Vistula and Neman Rivers, built between 1824 and 1839 with 18 locks, threading through forests, lakes and marshes in northeastern Belarus and offering scenic water touring and walking.

The last primeval lowland forest in Europe, straddling the Poland-Belarus border, protected as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site, home to the European bison and trees some 500 years old.

A nineteenth-century Russian fortress at a strategic crossing of the Bug River, destroyed during the 1941 Nazi invasion and preserved as a vast Soviet-era memorial complex and museum of the Great Patriotic War.

A historic city on the Neman River at the Lithuanian border, with a well-preserved Old Town of Lithuanian Commonwealth vintage, a baroque palace complex, and the distinctive Kalvarija hilltop religious complex, presenting an unusually layered urban landscape.

A Gothic castle built around 1510 by Duke Iljinich, later expanded by the Radziwiłł family, surrounded by a water moat and set within a small town in western Belarus.

A Renaissance-era palace of the Radziwiłł family, begun in 1584, surrounded by an English-style landscape park with three lakes, and jointly UNESCO-listed with Mir Castle since 2000.