A science teacher's dream.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

Stalin's secret bunker.

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

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

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

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

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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

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

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.