Places slecnave Wants to Go

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

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

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

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

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

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

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

The coldest city in the world.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.

Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.

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.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

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

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

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.