Places Noodle Wants to Go

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

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

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

This Russian diner is staffed entirely by twins.

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

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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

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

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

A massive Celtic cross secretly growing in an Irish forest.

A peace symbol in Northern Ireland is among the world's largest hedge mazes.

An Irish cemetery filled with victims of political strife and violent conflict, including the grave of Bobby Sands.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Fascination continues to surround one of history's most infamous shipwrecks.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.