Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

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

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

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

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

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.

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

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

Back in the tiny USSR.

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

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.