Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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

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

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

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

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

This Russian diner is staffed entirely by twins.

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

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

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

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

What once claimed to be the world's tallest single-family wooden structure house.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

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

Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

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

An unused hyberbolic electricity pylon kept as architectural monument.

The Russians still use the transmitter Nazis built during World War II to communicate with submarines.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

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

Stalin's secret bunker.