Architecture in Russia

Dominating the skyline of Kaliningrad, the iconic House of Soviets has always been abandoned.

One of the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's many summer retreats.

Thousands of biblical and pagan images are carved into this small 12th-century church.

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

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

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

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

A former military outpost of Ivan the Terrible, the 16th-century church contains some of the rarest examples of Eastern Orthodox mural paintings.

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

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

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

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

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

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

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.