Places macleanwendy Wants to Go

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

A miniatures park with a model of Wolf's Lair as it looked during World War II.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

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

This lonely Lithuanian chapel looks more beautiful and haunting in decline than it ever did in life.

A statue built to honor the elite soldiers who fought for Latvia during World War I.

A collection of historical engines and rolling stock from throughout Riga's rich railway history.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

This wooden recreation of a 9th century lake village looks as though it was built yesterday (which it relatively was).

Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.

See an anatomy teaching collection assembled in the 1920s and 1930s.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

Riga’s historic porcelain industry is preserved in this small, hidden museum.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

Built to ward off Napoleon's army, this city-sized abandoned Russian fort is now perfect for urban exploration.

First point in the Struve Geodetic Arc, a 19th century undertaking to measure the Earth's size and shape.

The secret cells in the basement of the KGB's Estonian "Grey House" have been preserved as a grim Cold War museum.

Man-made mineral caves house massive bat colony.

A wooden statue of an Estonian pagan god and King of the Setos stands atop a sacred hill.

A wealthy aristocratic family built this Disney-worthy, fairy-tale castle.