This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

Unused mast taller than every structure in the EU.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

A former military outpost of Ivan the Terrible, the 16th-century church contains some of the rarest examples of Eastern Orthodox mural paintings.

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

A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.

The largest Buddhist city in Europe is a haven for chess fanatics.

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

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."

A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.

An unused hyberbolic electricity pylon kept as architectural monument.

Russia's own leaning tower was built on a tragic historical fable.

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Volcanic irregularity? Odd erosion? Alien eggs? Local legends compete to explain these strange orbs.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

This Russian locomotive museum was once devoted just to Lenin's funeral before expanding to encompass Moscow's entire train history.

Stalin's secret bunker.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

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

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

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.