Places Drumma Wants to Go

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

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

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

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

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

Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

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

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

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

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

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

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

A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.

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

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

Dark, eerie exhibits make for a surreal exploration of the subconscious.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.