The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

Stalin's secret bunker.

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

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

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

Dark, eerie exhibits make for a surreal exploration of the subconscious.

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

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

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

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

Back in the tiny USSR.

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

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

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

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

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.

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