This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

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

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

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

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

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

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 coldest city in the world.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

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

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

The tallest hotel in Europe.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

Back in the tiny USSR.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.