This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

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

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

Dark, eerie exhibits make for a surreal exploration of the subconscious.

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.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

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

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

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

The tallest hotel in Europe.

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

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

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

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

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.

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

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