Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

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

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

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

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

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

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

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

A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.

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

A monument in the Belarusian city of Polotsk claims to mark the exact midpoint of the European continent.

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

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

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

This extensive collection covers thousands of years of Polish military history.

Relive a Polish uprising via an enormous, century-old cyclorama.

This towering statue of Jesus provided internet to the surrounding area.

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.

A small granite monument marks where the borders of three countries meet.

Modern art commemorates one of the first military actions of World War II.

This open-air museum was originally a World War II testing ground for German missiles and rockets.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.