Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

The coldest city in the world.

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.

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

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

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

This monument commemorates the soldiers who fought for 16 hours straight to penetrate this concrete fort.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

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

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

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

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

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

Back in the tiny USSR.

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

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

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

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

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.

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

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.