Octopus Bus Stop, Lake Inkit

Next to Lake Inkit sat one of Tsereteli's most gleeful inventions: the Octopus stop, all bright-blue mosaic swagger. Chai Khana records that it was badly damaged in a traffic accident and then disassembled, leaving only the frame and scattered fragments, which makes this less a clean sightseeing stop than a place to feel the fragility of the whole Soviet-bus-stop universe. Even in ruin, the idea is unforgettable.

Abkhazia, Georgia