Places csieminski Wants to Go

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

Built to ward off Napoleon's army, this city-sized abandoned Russian fort is now perfect for urban exploration.

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

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

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

The country estate of renowned Ukrainian-born artist Ilya Repin.

A window into the luxurious lives led by the landed gentry of Minsk before the 1917 Revolution.

Though it was heavily modified, fragments of the original medieval cathedral still survive.

Dozens of Soviet-era trains and carriages fill this outdoor museum.

Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

The river-powered ferry dates back to 1970s.

Step inside a Soviet-designed nuclear power plant with RBMK reactors identical to the ones in Chernobyl.

Discover the car that once belonged to the King of Nepal in a former Soviet-era taxi park.

A WWII museum that tries to reenact history.

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

This magnificent Art Deco church is a reflection of Lithuania’s turbulent history.

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

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.