This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

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

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

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

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

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

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

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

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

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

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

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

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

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

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

The tallest hotel in Europe.

The coldest city in the world.

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

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.

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

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.