Places justcaityy Wants to Go

This Russian diner is staffed entirely by twins.

For lovers of Soviet cinema, this museum is home to a vast collection of artifacts and costumes.

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

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

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

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

Back in the tiny USSR.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

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

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

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

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

Legend has it these two stones are petrified trolls.

The only structure in a remote mountain pass, these colorful cubes are visible from miles away.

This museum explores how a 1973 volcanic eruption forever changed this small Icelandic island.

A little-known, yet charming glacial lagoon.

A real-life homage to the Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell's fictional Eurovision musical duo.

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

This wild explosion of color on a disused water tower tells the whimsical tale of a curious puffin.