This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

This 13th century Gothic brick castle is the largest in the world by surface area.

The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.

This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."

These massive moving sand dunes have swallowed an entire village and are still on the run.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

An angel that hatched from an egg!

Discover the car that once belonged to the King of Nepal in a former Soviet-era taxi park.

A wide array of locomotives call this outdoor museum home.

Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.

This magnificent Art Deco church is a reflection of Lithuania’s turbulent history.

A 300-kilogram egg sculpture that embodied a neighborhood revival.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.