Places tommimeckley2 Wants to Go

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.

Folky pharmaceuticals abound in this medicinal reliquary.

Museum deep in the catacombs of St. Michael the Archangel Church is explored by touch, sound, and smell.

This lonely Lithuanian chapel looks more beautiful and haunting in decline than it ever did in life.

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

What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

The pyramid and dome deep inside the Dzūkija forest are believed to channel divine energy.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

Things aren't quite what they seem at this mind-bending museum.

A tiny traditional village keeps an ancient method of beekeeping alive.

The first museum dedicated to exploring humanity's cultural relationship with the celestial world.

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.

The only things left in this abandoned Latvian graveyard are a mysterious stone and a ghost story.

Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.

How this choice of tombstone came to be is still a mystery.

Surreal works of unreal stone and metal dot the landscape of this Latvian art park.

Built to ward off Napoleon's army, this city-sized abandoned Russian fort is now perfect for urban exploration.