America's first public mental health facility.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

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

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

A small village in two different countries.

A quiet country churchyard holds a monument to the last known sin-eater in England.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

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

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

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

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

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

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