A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

Two buildings named after their windows that make it look like a sea of television sets plastered to a wall.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

Thousands of biblical and pagan images are carved into this small 12th-century church.

Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

An unused hyberbolic electricity pylon kept as architectural monument.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

This burial mound is said to be the final resting place of Russia's first Viking ruler, Oleg of Novogrod.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

This historic system is the zero level benchmark for measuring the depths and altitudes of the Baltic.

A model village fit for an emperor.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

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

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This former medieval prison now unlocks Estonia’s rich photographic history.

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

This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.

A medieval setting reimagined into a unique art alley.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.