Places frankpoles Wants to Go

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

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

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

This sundial indicates the time based on where you stand within it.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Underwater restaurant at the coral reefs of Eilat.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

More than a century old, this heritage water tower is located in the middle of the high-rises of Pune.

This small and unknown museum recounts the life of Mirabai, a remarkable mystic saint of the 16th century.

These medieval funerary monuments are now home to a colony of critically endangered vultures.

Bold contestants slide in a rice paddy behind two charging bulls.

This ancient goddess temple inspired the design of India’s Parliament House.

This 17th-century mausoleum is topped with an acoustic marvel.