A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Colorful power station with a chimney equipped with a gallery for exhaust monitoring equipment.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

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

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

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

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

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

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.