This massive monument honors the first human in space.

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

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

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

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.

A monument to Malchik, a stray dog who lived in a Moscow metro station until his tragic death.

This Russian locomotive museum was once devoted just to Lenin's funeral before expanding to encompass Moscow's entire train history.

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

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