Places ht Wants to Go

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.

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

An unusual museum home to a vast collection of items that represent everyday life.

A unique museum dedicated to the history of household appliances from across the globe.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

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

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

The middle finger of modernity.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

One of the last examples of Soviet architectural propaganda has a few technological tricks up its sleeve.

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

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