Places libaw Wants to Go

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

This alluring underground library, hidden in a suburban Metro station, features a Space Age aesthetic and its own hydroponic garden.

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.

This dazzling wooden church was constructed as part of an elaborate peace project after the Thirty Years' War.

Catch a scenic view of Warsaw's Old Town from the top of a centuries-old dumping ground.

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

A mysterious concrete hand reaches out from between the stones of Uniwersytecki bridge.

The relics are stored in a silver reliquary, where they can be seen through glass.

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

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

A bronze replica of an elm tree that honors the victims that perished in Pawaik Prison.

The first, and perhaps only, monument dedicated to Wikipedia.

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

A cluster of headless, armless sculptures looms within a popular Polish park.

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

One of the world's largest amber altarpieces is housed within this reconstructed medieval church.

An abandoned football stadium with a tragic past.

This cemetery of rusting Soviet-era steam locomotives and train cars offers an apocalyptic glimpse into a bygone era.

Built to transport German U-boats through the never-completed Masurian Canal, the locks near this Polish village are now home to a rope course.

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

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

A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.

This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

The haunting concrete remains of a Nazi pebble crusher can still be found in this small French commune.