A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

A mysterious mountaintop temple infamous as the legendary home of the Tengu

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

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

This burial mound is said to be the final resting place of Russia's first Viking ruler, Oleg of Novogrod.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

An art museum inside an active factory.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

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

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

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

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

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.