Places benew Wants to Go

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

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

A cluster of headless, armless sculptures looms within a popular Polish park.

An abandoned football stadium with a tragic past.

An impressive monument to Poland's independence.

This 16th-century pole was once used in brutal public executions.

The largest coin pyramid in the world is a carefully balanced stack of over 1,000,000 pieces.

A miraculous three-handed portrait of a saint can be found inside this church.

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

Surreal works of unreal stone and metal dot the landscape of this Latvian art park.

What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.

A collection of expressive stone sculptures in a scenic and serene riverfront location.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

A subtle memorial marks where a human chain protested Soviet control in 1989.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

A former graveyard for Riga’s elite is now a large park with elegant monuments.

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

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

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

A quiet grave marks the site of a centuries-old fairytale love story that turned out to be a real murder.

This abandoned beacon is moving closer and closer to the sea.

This disappearing geyser has been attributed to witchcraft, but really it's all about rainfall.