Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

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

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

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

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

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

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

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

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.