Places alessandralee Wants to Go

This spa shower is an interactive art piece that reflects the feeling of Scandinavian seasons.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

Memorial to the lost dead of Gdansk, whose resting places were destroyed during World War II.

Disturbing works of outsider art, carved from whole logs.

Naturally formed rock city in Poland.

This mysterious and once-grand memorial still embodies a remarkable architectural vision.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

One of the largest amphitheaters in Europe is a former Nazi German gathering place that still stands today.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".

A miniatures park with a model of Wolf's Lair as it looked during World War II.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

Deep in a Polish forest, this collection of Iron Age megaliths still holds onto many of its ancient secrets.

This tower in a small Polish village uses the power of a sacred bell to ward off mischievous weather spirits.

These massive moving sand dunes have swallowed an entire village and are still on the run.

A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.

The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.

The hollow trunk of this 650-year-old tree was used as a hideout by two Jewish brothers during World War II.

A merchant court dedicated to the fictitious King Arthur is heavily adorned with bizarre Renaissance art.

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

A collection of old neon signs from all over Poland line a secluded courtyard.