A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

A curated museum of wooden sculptures inhabits this Russian home.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."

An unused hyberbolic electricity pylon kept as architectural monument.

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

A museum dedicated to controversial Russian pianist Alexander Scriabin.

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

This Russian locomotive museum was once devoted just to Lenin's funeral before expanding to encompass Moscow's entire train history.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

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

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

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

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

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.

Back in the tiny USSR.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.