This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

This Russian diner is staffed entirely by twins.

Russian spa's bronze monument to enemas.

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

A tribute to Richard Feynman is carved into the land he planned to see but never got to visit.

Most polluted lake in the world, used as a radioactive dumping ground for years.

A Russian museum dedicated to the household staple, the samovar.

Is it an island or a volcano? That question probably explains why it's uninhabited.

An incredibly random collection of wax figures is displayed in a shopping center walkway.

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

A replica of the straw hut where Vladimir Lenin lived in hiding, disguised as a hay farmer, in 1917.

A curated museum of wooden sculptures inhabits this Russian home.

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.

A model village fit for an emperor.

The largest Buddhist city in Europe is a haven for chess fanatics.

The composer did some of his finest work in this country home, including "The Nutcracker."

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

Intricate wood carvings on an island in Siberia.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

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

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

A self-taught Siberian craftsman creates a fantastical and personal design for his 19th century village house.