Places megankass Wants to Go

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

The last stop in southeast Russia.

This cypress grove is a unique site considering these trees are not native to the region.

This effigy of Peter the Great is greatly disproportionate.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

This monument commemorates the soldiers who fought for 16 hours straight to penetrate this concrete fort.

A collection of iconic Soviet car models on display.

A curated museum of wooden sculptures inhabits this Russian home.

The largest art park on the European continent.

One of the most popular attractions in the small resort town of Kabardinka.

A solemn, monumental, kitschy palace of worship honoring victory in the Great Patriotic War.

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

A tiny park off the beaten path covered in ingenious scrap metal sculptures.

Propped high atop the peak of Mount Gamsutlmeer, this abandoned village is one of the oldest settlements in the region.

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

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

An art museum inside an active factory.

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

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

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

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

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