Places Daniel Savidge Wants to Go

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

A collection of iconic Soviet car models on display.

A remote and picturesque volcano nestled inside another volcano.

Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."

For lovers of Soviet cinema, this museum is home to a vast collection of artifacts and costumes.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

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

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

Rare documents, old instruments, and gruesome specimens showcase the history of military medicine.

Propped high atop the peak of Mount Gamsutlmeer, this abandoned village is one of the oldest settlements in the region.

Thanks to this small string of islands World War II still hasn't officially ended between Russia and Japan.

Europe's highest peak is a key pillar of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge.

An enormous Soviet aircraft, the only one of its kind, stands at the deserted shore of the Caspian Sea.

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

A tea party concludes each visit to this Russian spice cookie sanctum.

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

An incredibly random collection of wax figures is displayed in a shopping center walkway.

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

What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

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.

Five mile wide circular ring of rock in the Russian Far East is a curious geological oddity.

One of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens in the world.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.