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This eerie sculpture overlooks what was known as the Road of Bones under Joseph Stalin.

These limestone cliffs are associated with the Greek myth of Prometheus.

Located along Lysaya Mountain, this monastery is home to the largest statue of Buddha in Russia.

A curated museum of wooden sculptures inhabits this Russian home.

A remote and picturesque volcano nestled inside another volcano.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

The largest art park on the European continent.

One of the most popular attractions in the small resort town of Kabardinka.

A collection of iconic Soviet car models on display.

A model village fit for an emperor.

An unused hyberbolic electricity pylon kept as architectural monument.

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

A tiny park off the beaten path covered in ingenious scrap metal sculptures.

One of the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's many summer retreats.

An abandoned mansion is now a haven for urban explorers.

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

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

A "station to nowhere" marks the site of a Siberian subway project that never saw the light of day.

A solemn, monumental, kitschy palace of worship honoring victory in the Great Patriotic War.

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

You'll find rocket launchers, not rollercoasters, at Russia's “military Disneyland.”

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.