Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

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

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

A seven-story 1920s mausoleum outside Denver houses thousands of remains.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

A 16th-century footpath said to be haunted by a young girl that died trapped within its misshapen old house.

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

The remains of a remote village that once housed over 1,200 dam workers and their families.

This Norwegian satellite station provides ground services to more satellites than any other facility in the world.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

Intricate wood carvings on an island in Siberia.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

A mecca for India's Jains.

A cave covered with bizarre stalactites of cloth.

Home of Vissarion, the "Jesus of Siberia."