Places LucasJV Wants to Go

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

An artificial date palm stands as a memorial to Warsaw's Jewish community.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

An exhibition of preserved locomotives housed in a 1950s depot shows the history of Denmark's railway.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

A radio tower with something unusual between its legs.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

One of Madrid's oldest trees, with a long and colorful history, resides in El Retiro Park.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

A Cold War secret surveillance tower used to spy on radio communications.

Heralded as one of the prettiest castles in all of Czechia.

In the town of Třeboň, carp is king.

One of the oldest, well-preserved water treatment facilities in all of Europe.

This Gothic church was wheeled in its entirety to a new location a half a mile away.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

This historic system is the zero level benchmark for measuring the depths and altitudes of the Baltic.