All Places in Russia

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

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

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

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

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

A former military outpost of Ivan the Terrible, the 16th-century church contains some of the rarest examples of Eastern Orthodox mural paintings.

Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

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

Europe's highest peak is a key pillar of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

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

A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

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

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.