This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

A tiny park off the beaten path covered in ingenious scrap metal sculptures.

Propped high atop the peak of Mount Gamsutlmeer, this abandoned village is one of the oldest settlements in the region.

Russia's own leaning tower was built on a tragic historical fable.

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

An art museum inside an active factory.

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

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

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

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

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

Replica of mosque destroyed by Russia in the 16th century.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

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

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

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

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

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