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

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

Stalin's secret bunker.

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

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

This abandoned nitrate town was repurposed as a dictator's prison.

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

Enjoy fresh-baked bread and fish from a repurposed Portuguese fortress.