Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

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

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

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.

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.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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

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

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

A beautiful but deteriorating monument of Soviet architecture.

When the Soviets destroyed the historic Armenian monastery they somehow left its bell tower intact.

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

Monks in the empyreal Alazani River valley have preserved their 1,000-year-old winemaking tradition.

Despite being tiny and rural this Georgian airport looks like a sci-fi boondoggle.

A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.