Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

A tea merchant built a dazzling Chinoiserie mansion in the 1890s to impress a Chinese ambassador

Home to artworks so small you need a microscope to see them.

This effigy of Peter the Great is greatly disproportionate.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

A model village fit for an emperor.

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

Russia's own leaning tower was built on a tragic historical fable.

A solemn, monumental, kitschy palace of worship honoring victory in the Great Patriotic War.

You'll find rocket launchers, not rollercoasters, at Russia's “military Disneyland.”

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

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

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

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

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

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

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

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

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

The tallest hotel in Europe.