Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

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

The tallest hotel in Europe.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

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

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

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

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

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

An art museum inside an active factory.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

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