Places poppyhuskisson Wants to Go

Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.

This oddly shaped building is a surprising Soviet-era crematorium.

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

A crumbling World War I fort that is reached through a series of concrete tunnels.

The walls of this medieval church are covered with perfectly preserved frescos, including a pristine example of the Dance of Death.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

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

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

This hilltop ruin is of the hundreds of stone columns built in tribute to the first German chancellor.

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

The two abandoned overpasses are among the largest bridges in Poland.

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