Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

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

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

One of the last examples of Soviet architectural propaganda has a few technological tricks up its sleeve.

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

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

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

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

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

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

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.