Places hamsteriyaki Wants to Go

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

A palace-fortress ruin in Indonesia complete with legends of two magical tigers, eight bathing angels, and a wish-granting cannon.

The second generation of a mighty volcano rises from the sea.

Site of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years, one which may have nearly wiped out humanity altogether.

A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

Exotic, erotic, and esoteric, one artist's live-in Bali gallery brings a splash of color and madness to its surroundings.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

A sober museum housed in the original administrative building of one of Stalin's largest gulags.

This Soviet statue is based on a piece of propaganda that's been elevated to national myth.

A collection of Lenin busts and other Soviet Era statues sit idly behind the Semipalatinsk Hotel.

A Stalinist prison camp for the wives and children of men accused of betraying the Soviet state is now a memorial museum.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.