Places Kevin OKeeffe Wants to Go

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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.

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

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.

A former military outpost of Ivan the Terrible, the 16th-century church contains some of the rarest examples of Eastern Orthodox mural paintings.

Russia's own leaning tower was built on a tragic historical fable.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

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

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

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

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

Intricate wood carvings on an island in Siberia.

A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.

A nondescript dirt lot hides an intriguing center of shamanic healing.

Thousands of artifacts tell Mongolia's military history, from the Bronze Age to the present.

An exceptional assortment of fossils recovered from private collections.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

This railroad track was so secretive that it was omitted from all maps.