Places Pupuliini Wants to Go

This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.

Mysterious spherical rocks in the semi-desert of western Kazakhstan.

At 72 feet below sea level, it's the lowest commercial airport in the world.

Most polluted lake in the world, used as a radioactive dumping ground for years.

Traces of the thriving lake trade that once linked the Soviet Union with Mongolia.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

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

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

Explore 150 years of Estonian rail history in a terminal once built for Tsar Nicholas II.

Legend has it that not even Stalin could pull down the 2015 European Tree of the Year.

This little gem in the Gulf of Riga has a very rich heritage and distinct culture.

For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.

A wooden statue of an Estonian pagan god and King of the Setos stands atop a sacred hill.

This peculiar border irregularity is the only way to legally enter Russia without a visa.

This stunning limestone waterfall is the highest in Estonia.

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

An abandoned textile factory on the "island of crows" was home to Estonia's first workers' strike.

Visitors can sit and study the board with this Estonian chess legend and International Grandmaster.

A statue of the Soviet leader still stands in a quiet corner of Estonia’s most Russian city.

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

Welcome to the greenest place in Greenland.

A forlorn fishing village on the coast of Labrador, full of shipwrecks and Spanish gold.