Riga, Latvia
Riga Central Market
3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.
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Riga, Latvia
3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.
Vilnius, Lithuania
An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.
Vilnius, Lithuania
This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.
Vilnius, Lithuania
Rub it for a bit of good luck.
Vilnius, Lithuania
While this monument tile is shrouded in mystery it also marks the end of the longest ever human chain.
Vilnius, Lithuania
Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.
Vilnius, Lithuania
A unique, playful portrayal of Jesus as a backpacking traveler.
Vilnius, Lithuania
Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.
Vilnius, Lithuania
This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.
Borgholm N, Sweden
An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.
Loches, France
Artist and musician Will Menter creates musical sculptures.
Sydney, Australia
A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.
Louisville, Kentucky
This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.
Maidstone, England
This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.
Aurora, Texas
This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.
Grand Lake, Colorado
The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.
Aspen, Colorado
An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Montreal, Québec
A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.
Dummerston, Vermont
The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.
Sirkka, Finland
In the Hugging Tree Forest, lingonberry marshmallows, hot chocolates, and the best campfire lattes north of the Arctic Circle come to you.
Milan, Italy
A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.
Berlin, Germany
Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.
Berlin, Germany
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.