Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.

An art museum inside an active factory.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

Five mile wide circular ring of rock in the Russian Far East is a curious geological oddity.

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

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.

This 15th-century cave complex is one of the very few monasteries to stay open throughout World War II and the Soviet regime.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

This remote lake in Siberia supposedly contains a fearsome sea monster.

An unusual collection of self-made musical instruments and unique noises.

The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.

Stalin's secret bunker.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

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

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

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

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

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

No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.