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Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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

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

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A student driver's nightmare.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.