Places User56cwd Wants to Go

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

An enormous Soviet aircraft, the only one of its kind, stands at the deserted shore of the Caspian Sea.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

A former special storage facility for documents during the Cold War.

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

Former headquarters of the KGB.

A museum specifically dedicated to the Trabant, one of the iconic automobiles of the GDR.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

This German "living museum" is maybe a bit too immersive.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

A symbol of the Workers' Party of North Korea.

North Korea's massive "hotel of doom."

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

This massive piece of aviation history calls this residential neighborhood home.

A collection of old steam and diesel locomotives sitting in a fenced-off garden.

Soviet General Zhukov’s former home is a quiet spot amid the heavy traffic of Ulaanbaatar.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

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

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

This extremely remote border crossing was closed to prevent smuggling and looting.

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's airship docked here before leading the first-ever flight over the North Pole.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.