Places ulitsky Wants to Go

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

Artist's eccentric property excessively decorated with found objects and work of his own.

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

World's largest crossword puzzle spans the side of a towerblock, its clues scattered throughout the city.

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

Museum covers every step of the chocolate-making process, from cultivation to the finished product.

This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.