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

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

A former special storage facility for documents during the Cold War.

This Russian locomotive museum was once devoted just to Lenin's funeral before expanding to encompass Moscow's entire train history.

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

This Russian diner is staffed entirely by twins.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

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

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

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

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

A museum dedicated to controversial Russian pianist Alexander Scriabin.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

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

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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

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

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.

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.