Places rivkaarose Wants to Go

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Thermal springs at the bottom of this lake create beautiful blue circles of clay.

An abandoned mansion is now a haven for urban explorers.

Thousands of biblical and pagan images are carved into this small 12th-century church.

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

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

A former military outpost of Ivan the Terrible, the 16th-century church contains some of the rarest examples of Eastern Orthodox mural paintings.

Propped high atop the peak of Mount Gamsutlmeer, this abandoned village is one of the oldest settlements in the region.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.

This 15th-century cave complex is one of the very few monasteries to stay open throughout World War II and the Soviet regime.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

One of the last examples of Soviet architectural propaganda has a few technological tricks up its sleeve.

Stalin's secret bunker.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

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

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.