Places guynthomas Wants to Go

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

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

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

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

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

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

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

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

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

The world's second-tallest flagpole stands proud despite dropping rank.

The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.

The largest dam in the world and the site of a potential disaster.

On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.