Places vraggio Wants to Go

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

A complex and beautiful system of rice terraces covers a million acres over the mountains.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.