The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Back in the tiny USSR.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

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

This Russian locomotive museum was once devoted just to Lenin's funeral before expanding to encompass Moscow's entire train history.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

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

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