A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

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

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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.

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

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

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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.

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

When the Soviets destroyed the historic Armenian monastery they somehow left its bell tower intact.