This effigy of Peter the Great is greatly disproportionate.

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

Immersive exhibitions track Saint Petersburg’s past and present.

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

An abandoned 14th-century castle and prison complex on a small island in the Neva River.

These Finnish rapids have been attracting tourists for over a hundred years and are now released with the push of a button.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

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.

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

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

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

Stalin's secret bunker.

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

A collection of iconic Soviet car models on display.

Thousands of biblical and pagan images are carved into this small 12th-century church.

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

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 own leaning tower was built on a tragic historical fable.

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

A smug-looking cat representing an humorous Russian expletive.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

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

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

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