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

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

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

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.