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

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

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

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

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

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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

Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

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

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Back in the tiny USSR.

The tallest hotel in Europe.