Places Edward Denny Wants to Go

Strange, gentle beasts resembling goat-cow hybrids roam within this patch of forest.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Russian spa's bronze monument to enemas.

A museum dedicated to controversial Russian pianist Alexander Scriabin.

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

The largest Buddhist city in Europe is a haven for chess fanatics.

The composer did some of his finest work in this country home, including "The Nutcracker."

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.

Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

Stalin's secret bunker.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

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

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

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

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

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

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

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

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

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

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.