The pitch, from Transnistria Tour, focuses on one of the city's main attractions: its many statues of Lenin and other Soviet-era heroes that in much of the rest of the former Soviet world have ...

The Bender Fortress, which looms above the Dniester not far from Tiraspol, is one of Transnistria's primary tourist attractions, and inside is a monument to the Baron of Münchhausen.

If you’re looking to visit somewhere really off-the-beaten-track, the self-declared independent state of Transnistria should have you fumbling for your passport.