One of the 5 most mysterious places of Russia is Rytyi Cape which is located at the north-west bank of Baikal Lake. That Cape is widely known by its shaman pyramids. Theese are constructions made of separate stones and resemble with pyramids.

According to the believs of ancient buryat people, the access of strangers to “shaman places of power” is strictly prohibited, because buryat shamans don’t want strangers to desecrate it.

It is still unknown who managed to build such a long (333m) stone wall at the Cape. It is necessary for anyone who comes to these place to tie a ribbon up on the branch of sacred tree.

If you want to get to the Shaman Cape you should take a bus from Irkutsk to tourist camp ‘Zama’, then you have to walk to the village of Ongurena.

The other ‘most mysterious places of Russia’ are the ancient eskimo capital of  Naukan at the Cape Dezhnyov (Chukchi Peninsula), the Ailinskaya Cave (Chelyabinsk Oblast), wooden castle at the spot of pagan temple Porzhenskiy Pogost in Arkhangelskaya Oblast and Uchar waterfall in Altai Republic.