Places mylittlemonsterhigh395 Wants to Go

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

A tribute to a Hollywood icon far from Tinseltown.

Thermal springs at the bottom of this lake create beautiful blue circles of clay.

A smug-looking cat representing an humorous Russian expletive.

The last stop in southeast Russia.

This cypress grove is a unique site considering these trees are not native to the region.

Located along Lysaya Mountain, this monastery is home to the largest statue of Buddha in Russia.

Home of Vissarion, the "Jesus of Siberia."

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 remote and picturesque volcano nestled inside another volcano.

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

An abandoned mansion is now a haven for urban explorers.

Thousands of biblical and pagan images are carved into this small 12th-century church.

The largest Buddhist city in Europe is a haven for chess fanatics.

A "station to nowhere" marks the site of a Siberian subway project that never saw the light of day.

Russia's own leaning tower was built on a tragic historical fable.

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

These tiny cabins on a cableway have been carrying visitors at a Baltic resort down to the beach since 1912.

A self-taught Siberian craftsman creates a fantastical and personal design for his 19th century village house.

Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.