Places Populaatti Wants to Go

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Tallest - but not most powerful - wind turbine in the world.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.

The first, and perhaps only, monument dedicated to Wikipedia.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

Once the tallest building in Chisinau, this unique tower is a relic of Soviet architecture.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

The largest wine cellar in the world is a 150-mile network of underground caves near the capital of Moldova.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Once the hottest nightclub in France, Amnesia now lies in ruins after a 2000 bombing.

A breathtakingly steep set of stairs is carved directly into the face of the sea cliffs of Bonifacio.

A micronation on an islet along the coast of a Portuguese island.

This bombed church was given a new life as a contemporary art gallery.

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

The biggest exposition of dental equipement in Europe. And a Mummy.

A mysterious concrete hand reaches out from between the stones of Uniwersytecki bridge.

A collection of old neon signs from all over Poland line a secluded courtyard.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

Naturally formed rock city in Poland.

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

On this Polish road, an optical illusion makes cars seem to roll uphill.