Places Megan Johnson Wants to Go

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

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

Memorial to the lost dead of Gdansk, whose resting places were destroyed during World War II.

A mysterious emblem tucked in an small alleyway is actually the coat of arms of a heroic medieval family.

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

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

This open-air museum was originally a World War II testing ground for German missiles and rockets.

Poland's oldest salt mine has nearly everything one needs to live underground forever.

These massive moving sand dunes have swallowed an entire village and are still on the run.

The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.

Boats must transform into railroad cars to navigate this Polish canal.

Once a giant gingerbread factory, this space now hosts exhibits and workshops on the historic treat.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

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

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

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

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.

This lonely Lithuanian chapel looks more beautiful and haunting in decline than it ever did in life.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.