Tallinn, Estonia
Linnahall
An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.
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Tallinn, Estonia
An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.
Riga, Latvia
Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.
Riga, Latvia
Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.
Kaunas, Lithuania
Ever-growing collection of devils in art.
Čičmany, Slovakia
A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.
Riga, Latvia
3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.
Medzilaborce, Slovakia
An extraordinary museum devoted to the pop art legend created by Slovak artists.
Irbene, Latvia
This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.
Vilnius, Lithuania
This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.
Lidumnieki, Latvia
This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Athens, Greece
Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Budapest, Hungary
Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary
From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.
Budapest, Hungary
A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.
Budapest, Hungary
A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.
Budapest, Hungary
Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.
Warsaw, Poland
A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.
Vác, Hungary
Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.
Brno, Czechia
A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.
Ostrava, Czechia
A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.
Holubice, Czechia
A concrete plant shaped like four giant soldiers commemorates one of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
Vilémovice, Czechia
The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”