Places cait7911 Wants to Go

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

On a small Slovenian island, diners can mix and match a classic cake into dozens of sweet and savory flavor combinations.

A cableway for car transport.

An extraordinary museum devoted to the pop art legend created by Slovak artists.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.

The composer did some of his finest work in this country home, including "The Nutcracker."

This Russian locomotive museum was once devoted just to Lenin's funeral before expanding to encompass Moscow's entire train history.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

Dark, eerie exhibits make for a surreal exploration of the subconscious.

Stalin's secret bunker.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.