Places markggn Wants to Go

Mysterious spherical rocks in the semi-desert of western Kazakhstan.

Iconic pyramid from famed British architect Norman Foster designed to represent all of the world's religious faiths.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

A collection of Lenin busts and other Soviet Era statues sit idly behind the Semipalatinsk Hotel.

Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

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.

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

Ride in 1960s style on the private luxury train Marshal Josip Tito used to travel around Yugoslavia.

This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.

A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

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

The social hall of this former factory is a Communist-era time capsule.

Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.

Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.