340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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

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

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

Denmark's famous pseudo-hill.

Vast stretch of tide-pools with a unique Moroccan charm.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

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

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.