Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

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.

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

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.

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

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

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

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

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

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.

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

Beautifully carved tombstones fill this unmarked graveyard, uniquely situated near the village's famous stone wine cellars.