Places Egao Wants to Go

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

The first museum dedicated to exploring humanity's cultural relationship with the celestial world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

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

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

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

This former Nazi labor camp is now a poignant memorial, complete with giant Soviet-style monuments.

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

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

The only things left in this abandoned Latvian graveyard are a mysterious stone and a ghost story.

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

Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.