Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

A lasting testament to the Klondike Gold Rush.

The resilient spirit of this remote mining town burns bright in its eclectic memorabilia.

A historic signpost to world cities on the top of a barren mining hill in the Yukon.

A colossal gold-dredging machine from the Klondike mining boom, now open to tours.

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.