Places Pengwn Wants to Go

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

The old fire station features a mural that has more to it than first meets the eye.

This Latvian shot factory is still used twice a year to manufacture bullets the old-fashioned way.

A small monument in Lithuania marks the geographic center of Europe—or at least one of the claimants.

While this monument tile is shrouded in mystery it also marks the end of the longest ever human chain.

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.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

Things aren't quite what they seem at this mind-bending museum.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

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

A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

World's largest crossword puzzle spans the side of a towerblock, its clues scattered throughout the city.

This Ukraine alleyway has become its own little island of forgotten things.