An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A museum dedicated to controversial Russian pianist Alexander Scriabin.

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

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

One of the last examples of Soviet architectural propaganda has a few technological tricks up its sleeve.

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

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

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

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

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

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

Back in the tiny USSR.

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

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

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

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

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.