The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

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

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

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

The Guardian of Tallinn.

A 300-kilogram egg sculpture that embodied a neighborhood revival.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

A towering baroque basilica jutting out of the French countryside.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.