A museum dedicated to controversial Russian pianist Alexander Scriabin.

Home of Vissarion, the "Jesus of Siberia."

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

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

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

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

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

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

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

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

The coldest city in the world.

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

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

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

Former headquarters of the KGB.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

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

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

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

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.