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This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

The coldest city in the world.

The largest art park on the European continent.

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

An unused hyberbolic electricity pylon kept as architectural monument.

An enormous Soviet aircraft, the only one of its kind, stands at the deserted shore of the Caspian Sea.

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

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

During the Soviet era, the medieval capital of Volga Bulgaria served as a substitute for Mecca.

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

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

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

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

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

A model village fit for an emperor.

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

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

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

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

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

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.