Constructivist Cool: Moscow’s Zuev Workers’ Club
Workers of the world, relax! The Zuev Workers' Club building in downtown Moscow was the epitome of Constructivist cool when it opened way back in 1929. Hipster-sky Hangout And it's still ...
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Honeymoon Cruiser: A Bizarre Russian Wedding Coach
This 'Exclusive Limo' based on Chrysler's late and unlamented PT Cruiser was designed to transport Russian about-to-be-weds in, er, style. You had one job, wedding coach designer... and ...
Staggering Statues: 7 Monumental Wonders of the Former Soviet Union
Nobody could ever accuse the Soviets of being too modest in the scale of their monuments and colossal sculptures, and they left no shortage of absolutely bonkers concrete and stone creations all ...
Unfree Wheeling: Amusingly Surreal Vintage Soviet Auto Ads
The Soviet Union not only manufactured cars, they exported them to buyers charmed (or duped) by some amusingly and bemusingly photographed advertisements. Putin the pedal to the metal ...
Ghostly Floating Farms: Abandoned Rural Buildings of Russia
The former USSR boasts some of the world’s weirdest and most hauntingly beautiful abandoned structures, from sci-fi monuments to prison camps and military facilities. Many of Russia’s ...
Soviet Bus Stops: Surreal Architectural Roadside Wonders
Standing stark against silent desert backdrops like sculptures made for Burning Man, these leftover Soviet structures are actually bus stops scattered throughout one of the most sparsely ...
Extreme Human Habitats: 7 Unexpected Urban World Wonders
Humans have established settlements in the strangest of places, from the base of an extremely lethal volcano in Japan to a platform of oil rigs built on the remains of seven ships in the Caspian ...
Soviet Yum-Yum: Russia’s Red October Chocolate Factory
On the hunt for Red October? Then get your taste buds to Moscow and the iconic red brick Red October Chocolate Factory, where top quality confectionery packaged in jewel-like wrappers have been ...
Ice Cars: In Soviet Russia, the Snow Makes for a Hot Ride
With much of the East coast of the US under a heavy blanket of snow, it's starting to look (and feel) almost like the cold wilderness of Siberia. Luckily for us, spring and summer will eventually ...
