Russian spa's bronze monument to enemas.

Thousands of biblical and pagan images are carved into this small 12th-century church.

Most polluted lake in the world, used as a radioactive dumping ground for years.

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

The composer did some of his finest work in this country home, including "The Nutcracker."

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

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

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

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

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

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

Dark, eerie exhibits make for a surreal exploration of the subconscious.

Stalin's secret bunker.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

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

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

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

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

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

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

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

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.