Places dbone Wants to Go

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

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

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

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

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

This Norwegian satellite station provides ground services to more satellites than any other facility in the world.

1% of Greenland's entire population used to live in this single building, which is now slated for demolition.

Walrus skulls and narwhal bones were found here while excavating a 900-year old church.

No longer the only, but definitely the oldest, fountain in Greenland.

One Greenland town turned itself into an open air sculpture gallery with the help of a series of traditional stone artworks.