This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

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

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.