Places piegem Wants to Go

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

Stalin's secret bunker.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

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

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

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

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

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.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

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

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

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Created as a "model concentration camp" to hide Nazi atrocities from the international community, this former camp-ghetto now holds a museum and memorial honoring the lives lost within.

A Red Cross memorial museum at the site of the Niš concentration camp that operated for four eventful years during World War II.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

The only place where can you share a seat with the bums of the Fab Four.

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

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.