Places scheung Wants to Go

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

Dozens of Soviet-era trains and carriages fill this outdoor museum.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A 100-plus-year-old mill transformed into a hotel and restaurant.

The world's first invisible city square is an homage to a man who pushed the boundaries of art.

Where a Japanese government official issued transit visas to Jews fleeing from Nazi-occupied Poland.

Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

This magnificent Art Deco church is a reflection of Lithuania’s turbulent history.

These traffic lights celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the women's suffrage movement in Lithuania.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

A small monument in Lithuania marks the geographic center of Europe—or at least one of the claimants.

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

The oldest funicular in Lithuania has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.