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The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

A small monument in Lithuania marks the geographic center of Europe—or at least one of the claimants.

How this choice of tombstone came to be is still a mystery.

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

An unmarked, overgrown path through dense vegetation leads to the largest ancient structure in Polynesia.

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A map of Italy made entirely of trees.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

The entire known universe of the ancient Etruscans is held inside this bronze model of a sheep’s liver.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.

Hundreds of small crosses have been carved into the bark of the trees outside this small Estonian village.

Balanced on four stone pillars, this historic tower was the site of a tragic political assassination.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

Crawling into this primordial cave may feel disconcertingly familiar.

Wars fought and wars won are remembered by these abandoned bunker ruins.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

One of Hungary's most influential places of learning is also home to one of the world's most beautiful libraries.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

A bathhouse from the second Islamic Caliphate decorated with frescoes of constellations, pleasure gardens, and naked ladies.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.