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

A self-taught Siberian craftsman creates a fantastical and personal design for his 19th century village house.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

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

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.

What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

This remote lake in Siberia supposedly contains a fearsome sea monster.

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

Replica of mosque destroyed by Russia in the 16th century.

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

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

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

Five mile wide circular ring of rock in the Russian Far East is a curious geological oddity.

No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

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

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

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

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

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

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

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."