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

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

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

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

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

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

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

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

Back in the tiny USSR.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.