Places ruii Wants to Go

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

The coldest city in the world.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

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

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

Even drowned in an ocean of toxic waste, the remnants of this Romanian village stand tall.

Conspiracy theories and occult legends surround this mysterious natural rock formation.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

Bits of flat terrain surrounded by cliffs make one of the most beautiful landscapes in the Azores.

Nestled in the mountains of Portugal is a tiny village made almost entirely of schist.

Europe's oldest still-operational tea farm also boasts a spectacular view.

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.