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It's rumored this unique Baltic beacon was designed by Gustave Eiffel himself.

This remote sandstone cliff has one of the richest collections of Livonian petroglyph marks.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

Outstanding, eerie frescoes and decorations fill this 19th-century monastery.

A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.

This enigmatic artifact remained buried in a churchyard for years.

A lush oasis full of vibrant plants and striking geometric displays.

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

This old and disused water tower has received a new life as an art gallery with a piano staircase.

A forest park outside Tallinn full of architectural and artistic curiosities.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

A peculiar trapezoidal building covered with wonderful humorous reliefs.

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

A wonderfully versatile natural history curio cabinet preserved since the 1840s.

This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

This imposing 20th-century castle was abandoned before it was ever completed.

A World War II torpedo launch station abandoned off the Polish coast.

The two abandoned overpasses are among the largest bridges in Poland.

An abandoned 14th-century castle and prison complex on a small island in the Neva River.

This 15th-century cave complex is one of the very few monasteries to stay open throughout World War II and the Soviet regime.