Gargantuan home of Russian science.

An unusual collection of self-made musical instruments and unique noises.

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

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Back in the tiny USSR.

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

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

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

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

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

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

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.

Featured in one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.

One of the world’s best microminiaturist, Nicolaï Siadristy displays his lifetime of tiny creations in this museum.

This hill is known for its connection to the occult in Slavic tradition.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.