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

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

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.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

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

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Back in the tiny USSR.

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.

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

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

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

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

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.

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

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