Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.

Generations have refused to move this doll from its dusty resting place to preserve a castle from a watery fate.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

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

Dark, eerie exhibits make for a surreal exploration of the subconscious.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

Back in the tiny USSR.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

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

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

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