Places mcurtis Wants to Go

The largest coin pyramid in the world is a carefully balanced stack of over 1,000,000 pieces.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

Rub it for a bit of good luck.

A century-old prison in the heart of Vilnius is now a lively bar, dance club, and artist residency.

These traffic lights celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the women's suffrage movement in Lithuania.

The river-powered ferry dates back to 1970s.

Museum deep in the catacombs of St. Michael the Archangel Church is explored by touch, sound, and smell.

Small glass tiles offering windows into the city's layered past.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

Where a Japanese government official issued transit visas to Jews fleeing from Nazi-occupied Poland.

Described as one of the Baltic region’s most daring and original construction projects.

An abandoned Jewish sanatorium is tucked within the woods of Poland.

This public park collects signposts and other memorabilia related to local history, Polish-German relations and human progress

This abandoned but well-preserved Prussian fortress sits abandoned in a Polish forest near the German border.

A statue commemorating a Polish dog who took his role as man's best friend very seriously.

A collection of modern and vintage pinball machines housed in the cellar of a 15th-century building.

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

A unique museum dedicated to the history of household appliances from across the globe.

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

This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

An abandoned Nazi explosives plant founded by the inventor of dynamite is now an underground museum.

One of only two places in the world where two rivers cross each other without the waters mixing.

The pyramid and dome deep inside the Dzūkija forest are believed to channel divine energy.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.