Places reymma Wants to Go

This 18th-century project to build the world's tallest gravity dam was never completed.

An Ottoman-era mosque looking over the Black Sea.

The legendary wooden horse that stands in modern Troy is a prop from the 2004 Wolfgang Petersen film.

This giant work of Cappadocian pottery includes a memorial for the artisan who created it.

Byzantine emperors ruled, lived, and died in this 13th-century palace-turned-museum.

According to local legends, the shallow sandbar that allows visitors to walk across Orhaniye Bay has a tragic backstory.

At night, this memorial illuminates a ghostly outline of a footbridge that connected two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto.

An artificial date palm stands as a memorial to Warsaw's Jewish community.

Where visitors can play more than 150 retro arcade games.

Brought to you by the makers of fiberglass dinosaurs.

Built to transport German U-boats through the never-completed Masurian Canal, the locks near this Polish village are now home to a rope course.

While the U.S. and Soviet Union were engaged in a space race, Poland built a UFO on the ground.

A tree planted by Marie Curie is treasured by the Radium institute that she set up.

This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.

Communism's topsy-turvy effect on Poland has been brought to life in this wacky tourist trap.

This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.

A supersonic jet stands on a pedestal in this rural village as a monument to military aviation.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

This 15th-century cave complex is one of the very few monasteries to stay open throughout World War II and the Soviet regime.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.