A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

This monument commemorates the soldiers who fought for 16 hours straight to penetrate this concrete fort.

These limestone cliffs are associated with the Greek myth of Prometheus.

One of the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's many summer retreats.

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

For lovers of Soviet cinema, this museum is home to a vast collection of artifacts and costumes.

A "station to nowhere" marks the site of a Siberian subway project that never saw the light of day.

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

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

The coldest city in the world.

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

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

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

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

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

A tribute to a Hollywood icon far from Tinseltown.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

A monument to Malchik, a stray dog who lived in a Moscow metro station until his tragic death.