A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This Russian diner is staffed entirely by twins.

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

A museum dedicated to controversial Russian pianist Alexander Scriabin.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

This Russian locomotive museum was once devoted just to Lenin's funeral before expanding to encompass Moscow's entire train history.

Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

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

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

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

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

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.