In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

You'll find rocket launchers, not rollercoasters, at Russia's “military Disneyland.”

One of the last examples of Soviet architectural propaganda has a few technological tricks up its sleeve.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

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.

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

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.

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

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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