Places colingross Wants to Go

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

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

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

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Back in the tiny USSR.

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

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.

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

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.