Places cpalmer007 Wants to Go

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

This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.

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

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

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 past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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

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

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

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

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.