A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

The labyrinthine home of the National Archives of Estonia is an experimental blend of architecture, art, and history.

First point in the Struve Geodetic Arc, a 19th century undertaking to measure the Earth's size and shape.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A stone marker and sculpture in the city of Riga stake a claim for the very first community Christmas tree.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

Berlin's old airport.

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

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

Bizarre dirt trail winds a narrow path above the tree line.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.