Places mggreaves Wants to Go

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

Avenue of trees planted by cosmonauts before their space departures.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.

The Russian author's writing desk remains inside the house where he spent part of his Siberian exile.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

A fort of historic failures where the island's colonial powers first collided.

This might be the most famous abandoned hotel in the Caribbean.

A sanctuary for sickly, stray, or wounded donkeys.

This living labyrinth made entirely of thorns is filled with art.

The oldest operating distillery in the BVI.

An imposing statue of the first prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda stands in the middle of a traffic intersection.

A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.

On a small island in the Caribbean, a statue of Napoleon's first wife has been beheaded and covered in red paint.

The larger of two volcanic peaks rising out of the crystalline waters of the Caribbean.

A volcanically-heated waterfall in the St. Lucian rainforest.

This stone commemorates the island's launch into international aviation.

Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.

Be careful not to get trampled at this lively two thousand-year-old market.

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

This 100-foot tall tombstone memorializes victims of 40 years of nuclear testing in Kazakhstan.

A sober museum housed in the original administrative building of one of Stalin's largest gulags.

These excavated burials from the Tarim Basin are wrapped in mystery.

This mysterious complex of abandoned yurts and fading murals was meant to be a center of science and spirituality in Kyrgyzstan.

This museum is dedicated to one of Russia's greatest explorers.