Places Kris McCracken Wants to Go

A somber place of memory and reflection, that tells the story of Riga's Jewish community before and during World War II.

A maze of underground warehouses and cellars underneath one of Poland's most historic cities

The tallest stone dam in Poland was opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II himself.

For 200 years, people have flocked to this Polish town to experience the healing powers of salt.

One of Warsaw's coolest malls was once a center for anti-Nazi resistance activity.

A relic of Poland's shipbuilding past, reborn as a sky-high lookout.

A Bauhaus co-founder designed this quirky, abandoned granary.

The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.

This abandoned but well-preserved Prussian fortress sits abandoned in a Polish forest near the German border.

The rusting hulk of a Soviet warship sits on a Polish beach.

A Soviet era flat that refused to conform to the dull gray standards.

This lakeside bunker complex in Mamerki, Poland, housed the Supreme Military Command of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Gliwice Radio Tower, likely the tallest wooden structure in the world.

This ex-prison dates back to the Middle Ages.

People in Poland have rallied to save this unnatural desert from being reclaimed by the forest.

This hilltop ruin is of the hundreds of stone columns built in tribute to the first German chancellor.

An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.

While the U.S. and Soviet Union were engaged in a space race, Poland built a UFO on the ground.

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

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

Dubbed "Wistom" by locals, this abandoned factory is an urban explorer's dream.

One of the largest amphitheaters in Europe is a former Nazi German gathering place that still stands today.

Memorial to the lost dead of Gdansk, whose resting places were destroyed during World War II.

This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.