Places Brian Pozun Wants to Go

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.

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

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

This bone-filled cave got its name after they found 140 bear skeletons inside.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

The first mosque in Ghana is known as the "Mecca of West Africa."

A gigantic statue of a Russian soldier watches over the ancient city of Plovdiv, a prominent reminder of the Soviet period in Bulgaria.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.