Places bartholomej Wants to Go

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.

A WWII museum that tries to reenact history.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

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

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

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

You would never guess that before World War II this lonely field was a bustling German city.

An impressive ensemble of sculptures that survived the Soviet regime.

A small granite monument marks where the borders of three countries meet.

The pyramid and dome deep inside the Dzūkija forest are believed to channel divine energy.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

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

A somber memorial honors the hundreds of thousands of lives lost at this labor and extermination camp.

This hilltop ruin is of the hundreds of stone columns built in tribute to the first German chancellor.

Boats must transform into railroad cars to navigate this Polish canal.

This 13th century Gothic brick castle is the largest in the world by surface area.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

A small monument in Lithuania marks the geographic center of Europe—or at least one of the claimants.