This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

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

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

The coldest city in the world.

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

The tallest hotel in Europe.

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

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

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

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

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

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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

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.

A sculpture of graceful storks sits atop this fountain in Independence Square.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

Underwater restaurant at the coral reefs of Eilat.

After over 100 years out of service this landmark windmill once again turns as a symbol of Jerusalem's self-sufficiency.

This full-sized orange tree lives suspended in mid-air above the streets of Jaffa.