Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

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

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

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

This remote island, home to the easternmost point in Denmark, once hosted pirates and a military fortress.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

This antique farmhouse is one of Læsø's rare seaweed houses.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

This Denmark theme park is part family attraction, part experimental archaeology project.

The world's largest maze is a nature park with nearly 200 decision points.

The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.

A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

Five soviet prisoners of war were executed at this spot just days before the liberation of Norway.

A collection documenting Nazi occupation of Norway, including a painting believed to be made by Hitler.