Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

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

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

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

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.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

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

Back in the tiny USSR.

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

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

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

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.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.

A quaint hamlet of nine cottages around a small green near Blaise castle.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.