Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

The final resting place of the last "gypsy king" of Poland.

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.

A tree planted by Marie Curie is treasured by the Radium institute that she set up.

One of the world's largest collections of medieval religious art.

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

Atop this library is one of the most beautiful green spaces in Warsaw.

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

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

This biographical museum honors the groundbreaking scientist at her birthplace in Warsaw.

A bronze replica of an elm tree that honors the victims that perished in Pawaik Prison.

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

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

A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".

This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.

This dazzling wooden church was constructed as part of an elaborate peace project after the Thirty Years' War.

The largest toy museum in Poland showcases Europe's history of childhood.

A quasi-futuristic roof sits atop a medieval Bohemian monastery damaged during World War II.

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.