Places drawingofsound Wants to Go

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

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

Take a schvitz just like an infamous Soviet dictator while his unblinking eye looks on.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

Rare signs of the former Soviet Union in the Caribbean, though not where you'd expect them.

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

In the land of the Light Brigade stands a testament to the Cold War.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Museum dedicated to overthrowing the Soviets, complete with diorama of Soviets being beaten to death with shovels.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.