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

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

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

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

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

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

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

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

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

Conspiracy theories and occult legends surround this mysterious natural rock formation.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.