This remote lake in Siberia supposedly contains a fearsome sea monster.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

Stalin's secret bunker.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

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

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

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

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

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

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

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

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

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

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.