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.

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

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.

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

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

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

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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.

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

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.