Places Akusaru Wants to Go

The charming storybook building now houses a small police museum.

This enigmatic artifact remained buried in a churchyard for years.

This space age health spa looks like a supervillain's lair.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

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

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

This replica of the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba's tomb stands unfinished in the New Mexico desert.

This garage is frozen in the late 1990s, full of rare and untouched cars and motorcycles.

The Jelgava Palace holds one of the few burial places of governor’s dynasties that is open to the public.

This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.

This remote sandstone cliff has one of the richest collections of Livonian petroglyph marks.

This former Nazi labor camp is now a poignant memorial, complete with giant Soviet-style monuments.

A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.

This statue is dedicated to the animal cosmonauts that perished during space flight experiments.

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

The mile-long pier stretches from a ruined fortress out into the Baltic.

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

Built to ward off Napoleon's army, this city-sized abandoned Russian fort is now perfect for urban exploration.

Mysterious heaps of stones dot these otherworldly woods.

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.