Places blackwidow Wants to Go

Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

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.

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

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

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

These Finnish rapids have been attracting tourists for over a hundred years and are now released with the push of a button.

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

A model village fit for an emperor.

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

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

Oldest Protestant church in the Middle East, designed to resemble a synagogue.

This Latvian shot factory is still used twice a year to manufacture bullets the old-fashioned way.

The only things left in this abandoned Latvian graveyard are a mysterious stone and a ghost story.

A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

A small monument in Lithuania marks the geographic center of Europe—or at least one of the claimants.

This lonely Lithuanian chapel looks more beautiful and haunting in decline than it ever did in life.

Two old windmills got a new life as oversized sculptures of a man and a woman.