The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.

This burial mound is said to be the final resting place of Russia's first Viking ruler, Oleg of Novogrod.

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

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

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

During the Soviet era, the medieval capital of Volga Bulgaria served as a substitute for Mecca.

A tribute to a Hollywood icon far from Tinseltown.

Hundreds of large Russian nesting dolls decorate this square, and the largest is a functioning hotel.

This spiritual landmark for practicers of Shamanism is drenched in milk and vodka and covered in blue scarves.

What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.

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

Intricate wood carvings on an island in Siberia.

A tiny park off the beaten path covered in ingenious scrap metal sculptures.

The Uyghur settlement in the middle of a lake continues to raise questions.

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

These ancient pecked images are among the oldest and best-preserved in Mongolia.

The last stop in southeast Russia.

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

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.

This 100-foot tall tombstone memorializes victims of 40 years of nuclear testing in Kazakhstan.

A pair of towering monuments commemorate two of Kazakhstan's greatest poets and philosophers.

According to one story, this burial mound is made up of stones that represent the casualties of a major battle.

A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.