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

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

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

Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

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

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Back in the tiny USSR.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

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

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

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

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

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

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

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

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