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The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

Russian spa's bronze monument to enemas.

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

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

An unused hyberbolic electricity pylon kept as architectural monument.

Stalin's secret bunker.

A self-taught Siberian craftsman creates a fantastical and personal design for his 19th century village house.

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

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

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

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.