This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

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

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

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

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

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

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

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

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

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

The coldest city in the world.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

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