Places klicmanj Wants to Go

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

This 12th century, partially destroyed, abbey has had several owners and was seized during the French Revolution.

This natural crater along the coast of Jersey may take its name from the devil statues who have watched over it.

This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

A century-old prison in the heart of Vilnius is now a lively bar, dance club, and artist residency.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

Over time, this castle grew to encompass the entire island.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

These historical landmarks stand as reminders of the evolution of animal care and conservation.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.