Places jocelyngould Wants to Go

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

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

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

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