Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

Dark, eerie exhibits make for a surreal exploration of the subconscious.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

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

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

The largest-known fragment of an asteroid that exploded over the southern Ural region in 2013.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

A strange building in the woods connected to a tragic love story

The oldest preserved Triumphal Arch in Northern Italy

The peace and seclusion of Kyoto’s “Moss Temple” is no accident.

Closing the station left a big hole in the ground. So they put in a shopping centre, a block of apartments and bus station over it and the largest undercover car park Europe in it.

Amazing Roman mosaics discovered by accident, in 1989, during some street furniture works

A meeting of art and architecture adorns this 5 star hotel

An ancient natural spring still providing water to the nearby village

A relatively intact tower house still offering sweeping views of the surrounding countryside

The ruins of the Sacred Heart Memorial, which was first “shot” by a weird firing squad and then dynamited during the Spanish Civil War

Home to an astounding collection of carved skulls and other artifacts from Puebla's history

Steeple Bumpstead is missing its namesake and locals argue whether it is due to war or wizardry

Cemetery with no dead, but a collection of exceptionally irreverent funerary monuments, site of the World Peace Cross and the world's most monumental Danse Macabre

The place where a brilliant German artist ended his life after a struggle against a malignant disease he could not win