A tribute to a Hollywood icon far from Tinseltown.

Dominating the skyline of Kaliningrad, the iconic House of Soviets has always been abandoned.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

These tiny cabins on a cableway have been carrying visitors at a Baltic resort down to the beach since 1912.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

Thanks to this small string of islands World War II still hasn't officially ended between Russia and Japan.

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

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

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

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

Stalin's secret bunker.

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

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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

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

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

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

A replica of the straw hut where Vladimir Lenin lived in hiding, disguised as a hay farmer, in 1917.

This memorial complex contains several mass graves for victims of the Siege of Leningrad.