Places ElSilencio Wants to Go

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

What once claimed to be the world's tallest single-family wooden structure house.

This historic system is the zero level benchmark for measuring the depths and altitudes of the Baltic.

You'll find rocket launchers, not rollercoasters, at Russia's “military Disneyland.”

Rare documents, old instruments, and gruesome specimens showcase the history of military medicine.

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

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

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.

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

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

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

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

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

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

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