Places Brian Pozun Wants to Go

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

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

Mexico's first public cable car soars over the congested streets outside Mexico City.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

This space age health spa looks like a supervillain's lair.

A decommissioned Soviet airplane has been used as a movie theater and a cultural center.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

This Gothic-style church is reputedly built atop the remains of one of Jesus's apostles.

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

The only international border marker within the United States.

This peculiar border irregularity is the only way to legally enter Russia without a visa.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

Where the oil industry began.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.