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Russian spa's bronze monument to enemas.

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

A curated museum of wooden sculptures inhabits this Russian home.

A model village fit for an emperor.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

The composer did some of his finest work in this country home, including "The Nutcracker."

Home of Vissarion, the "Jesus of Siberia."

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."

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

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

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

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

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

What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.

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

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

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

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

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

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.