Places grantavery Wants to Go

This monument commemorates the soldiers who fought for 16 hours straight to penetrate this concrete fort.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

Back in the tiny USSR.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

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

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.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

Stone pillars and a petrified wedding party in the hills of North Macedonia.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

At less than four inches in height, this iconic fictional character is the smallest public statue in all of Moldova.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

This hidden fortress has been coined the "City of Ghosts."

A collection of miniature, symbolic sculptures hides in plain sight across Kyiv.

This underground transport hub doubles as an art gallery.