Moscow, Russia
Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.
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Moscow, Russia
Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.
Medvezhyegorsky District, Russia
Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.
Moscow, Russia
Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.
Moscow, Russia
Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.
Yekaterinburg, Russia
It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.
Dargavs, Russia
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.
Mirny, Russia
The world's second-largest excavated hole.
Evenkiysky District, Russia
Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.
Bratislava, Slovakia
A line of disused military bunkers built to defend against Nazi invasion lies hidden on the outskirts of the city.
Iceland
Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.
Ikateq, Greenland
A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.
Areedh Sub-District, Jordan
Concentrated around the Dead Sea, these surprising canyons are filled with coursing water, fish, and even crabs.
Ensenada, Mexico
Legend says one of the world's largest marine geysers is actually a whale that got wedged within the rocks.
Baffin Region, Nunavut
This landlocked lake is the world's largest on an island.
Wallace, Idaho
It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Ecuador
This cave system allegedly holds the "metallic library" of a lost ancient civilization.
Dollaaskraal, South Africa
These otherworldly caverns form Earth's oldest known cave system.
Red Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
A forlorn fishing village on the coast of Labrador, full of shipwrecks and Spanish gold.
Lubec, Maine
This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.
Pugwash, Nova Scotia
A rustic house where intellectuals and investors tried to put an end to Cold War nuclear armament.
Harmony, Maine
Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."
Saint Andrews, New Brunswick
A small Canadian town founded as a refuge for Loyalists following American Independence.
Saint John, New Brunswick
A complicated, forgotten beacon of hope for thousands of immigrants, "Canada's Emerald Isle" lies in ruin.