Home of Vissarion, the "Jesus of Siberia."

A model village fit for an emperor.

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.

The composer did some of his finest work in this country home, including "The Nutcracker."

A replica of the straw hut where Vladimir Lenin lived in hiding, disguised as a hay farmer, in 1917.

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

A surreal pile of colorful junk fills a small yard in an otherwise gray neighborhood.

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

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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