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

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

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

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.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

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

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

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

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

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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

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

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

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

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

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

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