Places aemem Wants to Go

For over 40 years, this quaint little house has teetered on a rock in the middle of a river.

A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.

A sinuous path among steep cliffs creates a stunning sight in southwestern Serbia.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

This memorial park stands on the site of one of the largest mass executions of the Second World War.

This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

This 14th century castle withstood years of battle but is now sliding off the hills into the Danube.

Legends of treasure and spirits flow from this this fairy tale-like oasis.

This memorial complex contains several mass graves for victims of the Siege of Leningrad.

One of the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's many summer retreats.

A former military outpost of Ivan the Terrible, the 16th-century church contains some of the rarest examples of Eastern Orthodox mural paintings.

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

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

One of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens in the world.

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

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

This Russian locomotive museum was once devoted just to Lenin's funeral before expanding to encompass Moscow's entire train history.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.