Places Antlerpunch Wants to Go

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

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.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

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

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

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

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

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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

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

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

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.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

This house's itty bitty size means no humans allowed.