A peculiarly shaped brass sculpture hidden in a courtyard in central Lviv

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

A medieval setting reimagined into a unique art alley.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

This medieval Estonian tower provides access to a series of tunnels that have been home to soldiers, punks, and fine art.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

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

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.

Rub it for a bit of good luck.

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

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

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.