Rare documents, old instruments, and gruesome specimens showcase the history of military medicine.

This historic system is the zero level benchmark for measuring the depths and altitudes of the Baltic.

Thousands of biblical and pagan images are carved into this small 12th-century church.

Unused mast taller than every structure in the EU.

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

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

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

An unusual collection of self-made musical instruments and unique noises.

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

A museum dedicated to controversial Russian pianist Alexander Scriabin.

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

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

A curated museum of wooden sculptures inhabits this Russian home.

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

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.

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

A model village fit for an emperor.

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

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

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 surreal pile of colorful junk fills a small yard in an otherwise gray neighborhood.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

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