The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.

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

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

Former headquarters of the KGB.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

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

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

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

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

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

A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.