Places Edward Denny Wants to Go

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

A colossal strolling Pinocchio that was greeted with more outrage than whimsy.

Home to 200 plaster casts of Scandinavian proboscises.

This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

The world’s largest knitted mitten is displayed in one of Sweden’s smallest Arctic villages.

The world's biggest floating museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.

A former hen house turned curiosity cabinet displays one man's lifelong fascination with cannibalism.

The place to be if you love vintage Swedish cars.

This Swedish astronomical clock was in storage for almost a century before its glorious workings were put on display once more.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

This elderly couple's hand-picked collection of rare gems is one of the finest in all of Iceland.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

Largest private bird collection in Iceland, formed from a tragic accident.

This collection of unique liquids allows visitors to wander the waters of Iceland's glaciers.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.