Places breaingram Wants to Go

A beautiful but deteriorating monument of Soviet architecture.

A scenic canyon with thick forests and historic ruins.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

For lovers of Soviet cinema, this museum is home to a vast collection of artifacts and costumes.

A tea party concludes each visit to this Russian spice cookie sanctum.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

An unusual cave filled with rare alien-looking aragonite formations.

This region of Slovakia boasts some of the most plentiful opal mines in the world.

While the U.S. and Soviet Union were engaged in a space race, Poland built a UFO on the ground.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

This symbol of Polish heritage survived the occupation during World War II, hidden in plain sight.

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

Built to transport German U-boats through the never-completed Masurian Canal, the locks near this Polish village are now home to a rope course.

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

This biographical museum honors the groundbreaking scientist at her birthplace in Warsaw.

This bell stars in a tragic love tale and is said to make wishes come true.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

Once home to some 250,000 volumes and priceless art artifacts, this Polish estate was a target of bombing during World War II.

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

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

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

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.