An art museum inside an active factory.

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

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

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

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

Volcanic irregularity? Odd erosion? Alien eggs? Local legends compete to explain these strange orbs.

A tea party concludes each visit to this Russian spice cookie sanctum.

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

Slather on the history at an exhibition dedicated to this Russian luxury.

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

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

A tribute to a Hollywood icon far from Tinseltown.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.

One of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens in the world.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

A New Zealand rubbish dump named after British comedian John Cleese.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.