Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

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

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.

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

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

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

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

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

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

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

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

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

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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.

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

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

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

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

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

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

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.