Places nickblossom Wants to Go

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Ruins of a late 1950s Polish ski jump ramp in the middle of the city.

A marker honors the brief peace found by a tormented artist in the fictional land of Kcymaerxthaere.

This picturesque castle in Poland has a rich history, including a legend that ties it to lost Incan treasures.

Dubbed "Wistom" by locals, this abandoned factory is an urban explorer's dream.

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

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

A World War II torpedo launch station abandoned off the Polish coast.

This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

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

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

Communism's topsy-turvy effect on Poland has been brought to life in this wacky tourist trap.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

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

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

An underground city of salt.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.