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

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

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

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.