Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

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.

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

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.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

A wooden replica of France's famous tower.

Two well-hidden huts let animal lovers spend the night among the bears, wolves, and other predators of the forest.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

Legend says lovers who hold hands while venturing along this stone jetty and kiss at the end will remain together forever.

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.

A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

Rusted cars, trucks, and buses form a fascinating collection of Soviet-era machinery.

Wars fought and wars won are remembered by these abandoned bunker ruins.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

This abandoned beacon is moving closer and closer to the sea.

How this choice of tombstone came to be is still a mystery.

Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.