Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

A sweet museum focused on beets.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

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

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

Back in the tiny USSR.

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

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

A Russian museum dedicated to the household staple, the samovar.