Places johnw404 Wants to Go

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

The world’s first statue of the late Apple co-founder.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

The healing properties of this well attracted royals and commoners throughout the Middle Ages.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

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

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

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

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Back in the tiny USSR.

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.