Places guynthomas Wants to Go

This peculiar border irregularity is the only way to legally enter Russia without a visa.

Man-made mineral caves house massive bat colony.

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

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

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

Nicknamed Kazakhstan's Grand Canyon, this natural wonder lies east of Almaty near the Chinese border.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

Five mile wide circular ring of rock in the Russian Far East is a curious geological oddity.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

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

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

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

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

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

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