Places rosetatarsky Wants to Go

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

The second-deepest known cave on Earth, hidden in an extremely remote mountain region.

A self-taught Siberian craftsman creates a fantastical and personal design for his 19th century village house.

A solar-powered primary school inspires hope and experimentation in a country ripe for energy innovation.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

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

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.

An underground city of salt.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

A grand Yugoslav memorial to the group of partisans who fought and died resisting western Serbia’s Nazi occupation.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

Partially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabs.