Places mcurtis Wants to Go

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

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

The Latvian city of Ventspils is filled with dozens of cow statues showcasing unique themes.

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

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

Step inside a Soviet-designed nuclear power plant with RBMK reactors identical to the ones in Chernobyl.

The first museum dedicated to exploring humanity's cultural relationship with the celestial world.

Dominating the skyline of Kaliningrad, the iconic House of Soviets has always been abandoned.

These tiny cabins on a cableway have been carrying visitors at a Baltic resort down to the beach since 1912.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

You would never guess that before World War II this lonely field was a bustling German city.

Ever-growing collection of devils in art.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

A small monument in Lithuania marks the geographic center of Europe—or at least one of the claimants.

Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

Dozens of Soviet-era trains and carriages fill this outdoor museum.

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

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

A decommissioned Soviet airplane has been used as a movie theater and a cultural center.

A monument in the Belarusian city of Polotsk claims to mark the exact midpoint of the European continent.

A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.