Places christacarroll Wants to Go

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

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.

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

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

Inside this medieval church resides a unique set of murals.

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

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

This small Estonian hill is covered in hand-made twig crosses that are said to bring good luck.

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

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.