A monument in the Belarusian city of Polotsk claims to mark the exact midpoint of the European continent.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

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

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

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

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

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

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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

Back in the tiny USSR.

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

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.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

A boiling wellspring flowing with natural gas burns in a continual blaze.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.