Gargantuan home of Russian science.

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

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

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

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

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

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

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

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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

A building facade covered with the statues of 11 giants of Tajik literature.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

This graceful little figure is a one-of-a-kind version of the cherished character.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Venice's "Island of the Mad."