open-air place

The main pavilion at VDNH, a white colonnaded building with a gold spire topped by a red star, reflected in the fountain pool in front of it

Expo Center of Ukraine (VDNH)

287 hectares of Soviet exhibition pavilions and parkland on the edge of Holosiiv Forest, across the road from the metro. Hire a bike to see any of it.

A large white cat sculpture pushing head first out of the tiled wall of pavilion 9 at VDNH

Monobank Cat

A 4.5 metre cat shouldering its way out of a pavilion wall at VDNH, put there by the bank half the country pays with. Free, outdoors, and a two minute stop.