Places gertrudeabbring Wants to Go

Museum deep in the catacombs of St. Michael the Archangel Church is explored by touch, sound, and smell.

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.

Things aren't quite what they seem at this mind-bending museum.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

The Latvian city of Ventspils is filled with dozens of cow statues showcasing unique themes.

This seaside pine grove features an exclusive watchtower that presents amazing views.

A unique museum dedicated to the famed Soviet director and other cinema greats.

How this choice of tombstone came to be is still a mystery.

Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.

This abandoned beacon is moving closer and closer to the sea.

This wooden recreation of a 9th century lake village looks as though it was built yesterday (which it relatively was).

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.

This enigmatic artifact remained buried in a churchyard for years.

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

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

These abandoned vessels are destined to be reclaimed by the forest.

Mysterious heaps of stones dot these otherworldly woods.

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.