Places iellwen Wants to Go

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

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

Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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

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.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.