Places pleiades Wants to Go

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

This effigy of Peter the Great is greatly disproportionate.

The largest Buddhist city in Europe is a haven for chess fanatics.

Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

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

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

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

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

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