The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

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

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

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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

Back in the tiny USSR.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.