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When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

Intricate wood carvings on an island in Siberia.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

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

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

Stalin's secret bunker.

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

The coldest city in the world.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

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

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

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

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

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