Places AnAn Wants to Go

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

A hidden museum focusing on the sexual aspects of anthropology.

Naturally formed rock city in Poland.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

This dazzling wooden church was constructed as part of an elaborate peace project after the Thirty Years' War.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

The oldest funicular in Lithuania has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.

Ever-growing collection of devils in art.

The world's newest astronomical clock is also its most accurate.

A serene memorial that honors the adventurous spirits of climbers who lost their lives in the High Tatras.

An extensive collection of some of the oldest grave markers in Lithuania.

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.

World's largest crossword puzzle spans the side of a towerblock, its clues scattered throughout the city.

Polish luminaries and masterful folk art find sanctuary in this unique cemetery.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

The rusting hulk of a Soviet warship sits on a Polish beach.

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

This striking structure is the Socialist-modernist centerpiece of a former Soviet spa resort.

This cemetery of rusting Soviet-era steam locomotives and train cars offers an apocalyptic glimpse into a bygone era.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

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