Places guen0062 Wants to Go

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

St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.

Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

Tombstones buried in overgrown grass mark the deceased occupants of this abandoned graveyard.

A decommissioned submarine base makes a great space for graffiti art.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

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

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

Tiny Swedish village with a distinct local phenomenon known as an "Elk Shower."

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

Ancient burial grounds of the wealthy.

Research station devoted to mysterious floating lights seen in a Norwegian valley.

Mound of stones marking the burial site of the world's most famous orca.