Places Nick Wants to Go

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

Come for the whole sides of slow-roasted lamb, stay for the regional Kurdish specialties.

An artificial hill and apparent calendric structure built in the Early Middle Ages immortalizes a legendary Polish princess.

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

Learn the fine art of making a centuries-old treat at this hands-on food museum.

At first glance, this area seems like just another city park, but the lush landscape hides a dark past.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

A memorial to the beloved brown bear that served in the Polish army during World War II.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

Order “Proletariat’s Cutlet” at this communist-themed restaurant allegedly once visited by Lenin.

These 18th-century paintings of Warsaw were used to reconstruct the city after World War II.

This bell stars in a tragic love tale and is said to make wishes come true.

This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.

The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

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

This museum showcases the lives of Hungarian school children and their vintage toys.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.