Places whiskeydanger Wants to Go

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

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

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Hanging over one of Japan’s “hidden valleys,” these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

This tiny museum kept in a B&B laundry room holds the death mask of notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.