Places markggn Wants to Go

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

This Latvian shot factory is still used twice a year to manufacture bullets the old-fashioned way.

The only things left in this abandoned Latvian graveyard are a mysterious stone and a ghost story.

These abandoned vessels are destined to be reclaimed by the forest.

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

This controversial monument was designed to lionize the Red Army, but also disheartened the Latvian people.

The first designer power line in Estonia.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

Serbia's master of striking memorials erected a forgotten, hidden gem in the hills outside a tiny village.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

One of the largest public squares in the world, named after the former DPRK supreme leader.

A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.

A giant bronze monument to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il is one of the most sacred sites in North Korea.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

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

An abandoned Soviet-era park that, when viewed from the air, looks like a pentagram.

This sprawling market is a one-stop shop for traditional Kazakh foods, from mare’s milk to sheep’s head.

A modern tower, symbolizing the legend of a golden egg on top of the tree of life.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.

Avenue of trees planted by cosmonauts before their space departures.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.