Places jtaeubner Wants to Go

A decommissioned Soviet airplane has been used as a movie theater and a cultural center.

A Russian museum dedicated to the household staple, the samovar.

A tea party concludes each visit to this Russian spice cookie sanctum.

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

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

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

A somber memorial honors the hundreds of thousands of lives lost at this labor and extermination camp.

What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.

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

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

A New York–based physician returned home to Spain to build his own elaborate monument to Christopher Columbus.

The extensive relics of an ancient Roman and Phoenician fish processing plant hide in a town park.

Despite its grandiose name, this enigmatic first-century void under the town is no cave, and it's possibly not a palace either.

Look closely and you'll spot the remains of an ancient Roman aqueduct beside this fountain.

This abandoned gold mine found a second life as a post-apocalyptic film set.

Abandoned tunnels dug for the once-thriving sea salt industry on the coast of southern Spain.

Remnants of the rich history of fish salting in this ancient Mediterranean port town.

Hidden underground, a remarkable 10th-century bath complex survives virtually unaltered.

Medieval village and microminiature museum.

Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.