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A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

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

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

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.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

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

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Russia's own leaning tower was built on a tragic historical fable.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

Replica of mosque destroyed by Russia in the 16th century.

These natural cliffs look like they are a part of an old castle complex.

In a long-dry lake bed, these groups of massive stone pillars bear a striking resemblance to clumps of everyone's favorite fungi.

An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

An architectural marvel that spans the Arda River, and has stories of a haunted past.

Once the legendary capital of the Dacian Kingdom, this city has been reduced to mere ruins.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.