Cool and Unusual Things to Do in Yekaterinburg - Atlas Obscura

Unusual Attractions in Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg, Russia

Psychedelic Salt Mines

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

Yekaterinburg, Russia

The Church on the Blood

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

Yekaterinburg, Russia

Keyboard Monument

Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

Yekaterinburg, Russia

Beatles Monument

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

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Ganina Yama

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

8 miles from Yekaterinburg

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