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This Latvian shot factory is still used twice a year to manufacture bullets the old-fashioned way.

Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.

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

Surreal works of unreal stone and metal dot the landscape of this Latvian art park.

This wooden recreation of a 9th century lake village looks as though it was built yesterday (which it relatively was).

The mile-long pier stretches from a ruined fortress out into the Baltic.

The only things left in this abandoned Latvian graveyard are a mysterious stone and a ghost story.

A small museum contains one of the largest collections of ethnic and traditional headgear in the world.

A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

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

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

Built to ward off Napoleon's army, this city-sized abandoned Russian fort is now perfect for urban exploration.

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

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

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

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.