Places Red Fedora Diary Wants to Go

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

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

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

A shipwreck named Desire at the shore of Batumi.

Monks in the empyreal Alazani River valley have preserved their 1,000-year-old winemaking tradition.

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

When the Soviets destroyed the historic Armenian monastery they somehow left its bell tower intact.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.