Places Kris McCracken Wants to Go

A World War II torpedo launch station abandoned off the Polish coast.

Once a safe haven for locals engaged in blood feuds, this 400-year-old fortified tower is now a museum showing what life was like for those lying in wait within its walls.

A UNESCO-protected spiritual seat of the Old Serbian Kingdom and Empire.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

One of the oldest structures in Helsinki is this burrow grave that dates back to the Bronze Age.

Visit a secretive crypt before it crumbles to dust.

This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.

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

An extensive network of secret tunnels was created for the Nazi project "Riese."

This unique museum focuses on the Siege of Sarajevo through children's eyes.

A uniquely preserved neo-Gothic church that is now home to a collection of art and woodcarvings.

This cozy café is housed in a repurposed pharmacy originally built in 1927.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

Visit an imposing 13th-century Transylvanian citadel lurking not far from the region's more heavily touristed attractions.

A museum specifically dedicated to the Trabant, one of the iconic automobiles of the GDR.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

At night, this memorial illuminates a ghostly outline of a footbridge that connected two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto.

This 1920s Amsterdam neighborhood was built as a giant experiment in concrete construction.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

The history and future of cannabis.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.