Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

A miniatures park with a model of Wolf's Lair as it looked during World War II.

A memorial to the beloved brown bear that served in the Polish army during World War II.

Deep in a Polish forest, this collection of Iron Age megaliths still holds onto many of its ancient secrets.

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

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

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

An underground city of salt.

Hundreds of boat-shaped headstones fill this graveyard as part of a centuries-old custom with mysterious origins.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

An industrial site turned into Hungary's most cherished natural wonder.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.

This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.

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

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

Padlocks cover this rickety footbridge with love.

A peculiarly shaped brass sculpture hidden in a courtyard in central Lviv

It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.

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

A quirky collection flush with information on commode culture from ancient times to modern day.

The ruins of an abandoned church loom within a picturesque Ukranian village.

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

Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.