Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

Europe's highest peak is a key pillar of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge.

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

A surreal pile of colorful junk fills a small yard in an otherwise gray neighborhood.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

Replica of mosque destroyed by Russia in the 16th century.

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

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

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

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

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.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Northern Ireland's church-turned-skate park.

These rusting, skeletal structures are monolithic monuments to Glasgow's industrial past

At night, the enormous sculpture looks like a UFO hovering above the English hills.

A quaint hamlet of nine cottages around a small green near Blaise castle.