Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

The coldest city in the world.

Dark, eerie exhibits make for a surreal exploration of the subconscious.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

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

Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

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.