Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

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

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

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

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.

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

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

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

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

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

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

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

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

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

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

Back in the tiny USSR.

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