Places ulitsky Wants to Go

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

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

A replica of the straw hut where Vladimir Lenin lived in hiding, disguised as a hay farmer, in 1917.

An unusual collection of self-made musical instruments and unique noises.

An abandoned 14th-century castle and prison complex on a small island in the Neva River.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

A statue of a boy looks up at where the famous rival to the Leaning Tower of Pisa once stood.

The world's largest solar furnace uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to generate power.

These striking ruins of a castle resemble a ship's stern.

The abandoned ruins of a beautiful medieval castle just outside Barcelona.

Military and first responders can test their skills in a Foggy Bottom mock station down in Georgia.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Relive a Polish uprising via an enormous, century-old cyclorama.

A collection of old neon signs from all over Poland line a secluded courtyard.

This magical space partly designed by Antoni Gaudi is one of the best examples of romantic gardening in the Mediterranean.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A fantastic Christmas tradition where defecation meets the manger.

One of Europe's largest supercomputers is housed inside of a disused chapel.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

It is believed that the historic tower is sinking at a rate of an inch a year, though no one is completely sure why.