Places dbone Wants to Go

This tiny Swedish troll protects the land and all who wander within it.

From under the bed of one of the co-founders, this server helped launch the notorious file-sharing website.

The world's only above water sand volcano, believed to once be the bathtub of a priest.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

The largest-known fragment of an asteroid that exploded over the southern Ural region in 2013.

This monument commemorates the soldiers who fought for 16 hours straight to penetrate this concrete fort.

The last stop in southeast Russia.

A Russian museum dedicated to the household staple, the samovar.

Is it an island or a volcano? That question probably explains why it's uninhabited.

One of the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's many summer retreats.

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

A former special storage facility for documents during the Cold War.

A former military outpost of Ivan the Terrible, the 16th-century church contains some of the rarest examples of Eastern Orthodox mural paintings.

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

This burial mound is said to be the final resting place of Russia's first Viking ruler, Oleg of Novogrod.

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

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

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

An abandoned 14th-century castle and prison complex on a small island in the Neva River.