Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

Relive a Polish uprising via an enormous, century-old cyclorama.

In the center of Wrocław's old meat market stands a somber tribute to the city's livestock.

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

A collection of old neon signs from all over Poland line a secluded courtyard.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

An abandoned textile factory on the "island of crows" was home to Estonia's first workers' strike.

Visitors can sit and study the board with this Estonian chess legend and International Grandmaster.

Historic slum of Tartu.

The secret cells in the basement of the KGB's Estonian "Grey House" have been preserved as a grim Cold War museum.

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

A historic scientific breakthrough that crosses nine borders.

Tucked away at a quiet Latvian crossroads, this stern, larger-than-life stone bust of a teenage communist martyr remains a fascinating and rare survivor of Soviet-era political idolization.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

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

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

A relic of Poland's shipbuilding past, reborn as a sky-high lookout.