Places Daniel Savidge Wants to Go

This Russian locomotive museum was once devoted just to Lenin's funeral before expanding to encompass Moscow's entire train history.

This 15th-century cave complex is one of the very few monasteries to stay open throughout World War II and the Soviet regime.

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

This remote lake in Siberia supposedly contains a fearsome sea monster.

The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

One of the last examples of Soviet architectural propaganda has a few technological tricks up its sleeve.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

Stalin's secret bunker.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

An unusual collection of self-made musical instruments and unique noises.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

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

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.