#16 | Borderland

A nation in a perpetual state of transition, Ukraine is a country stuck in between a more open, modern future and a richly cultured, agrarian past, pulled tense in many directions and traditions that still lie under the shadows of former allies and empires. Though some believe that the hand of communism has faded more slowly here in the heart of Eastern Europe, the country has undergone recent change in the new century with the Orange Revolution and the shaky emergence of democratic policies. A trip out of Kiev however, exposes regions as different from each other as their capital, and people living among the ambiguity and contradictions of a changing Ukraine, a name itself which literally translates to "on the edge."

#11 | The Lubavitch

Located in the heart of America's Hasidic world, in Brooklyn, NY, the Lubavitch are one of several ultra-orthodox groups of Jews spurred off from the original Hasidic movement in Eastern Europe 300 years ago. However, while still tied to a traditional past of Torah law and Jewish Mysticism, the Lubavitch are not typically "Hasidic" or "ultra-orthodox," and they embrace technology in a new devotion called "Jewish Outreach." More than a decade after the death of the revered spiritual leader Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, the Lubavitch are at a turning point in their history.