Places Egao Wants to Go

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

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

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

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

This abandoned fighter jet launch center is now a haunting street racing course.

This little gem in the Gulf of Riga has a very rich heritage and distinct culture.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

Inside this medieval church resides a unique set of murals.

It's rumored this unique Baltic beacon was designed by Gustave Eiffel himself.

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

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

At this exhibit on the world of poison, venomous animals steal the show.

A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.

A history of heat is on display at this unique Austrian museum.

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.