Places alxndr Wants to Go

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

Rusted cars, trucks, and buses form a fascinating collection of Soviet-era machinery.

Hidden deep in a forest is this geological wonder carved by glaciers.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

A decommissioned submarine base makes a great space for graffiti art.

Pigduck of Turku.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

Every summer, an open-air swimming pool appears at the base of a Finnish city's beloved winter attraction.

This cairn marks the only place where Central European Time, Eastern European Time, and Further-eastern European Time meet.

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

This historic system is the zero level benchmark for measuring the depths and altitudes of the Baltic.

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

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

An art museum inside an active factory.

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

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

An incredibly random collection of wax figures is displayed in a shopping center walkway.

This burial mound is said to be the final resting place of Russia's first Viking ruler, Oleg of Novogrod.

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

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.