Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

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

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

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

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

In memory of The Blur Building, the temporary exhibition pavilion of vaporous nothingness.

Medieval irrigation channels built into the sides of mountains provided Valais with water for hundreds of years.

Over 3km of caverns and caves at the Switzerland-France border contain the largest underground river in Central Europe.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

One of the most remarkable caves in all of Iceland was created by a once raging river of lava.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.