Haven for Cape Fur Seals, until the Ring of Death of jumping Great White Sharks arrives.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

An art museum inside an active factory.

A self-taught Siberian craftsman creates a fantastical and personal design for his 19th century village house.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

This remote lake in Siberia supposedly contains a fearsome sea monster.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

Replica of mosque destroyed by Russia in the 16th century.

No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

Dark, eerie exhibits make for a surreal exploration of the subconscious.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

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

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

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