This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

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

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

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

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

Walk along the medieval fortifications that have been protecting Tallinn since the 14th century.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

A stunning architectural yet functional feat, towering over Oslo.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Sweden's largest remaining gantry crane is a relic of Gothenburg's industrial past.

A monumental magenta installation looms over a tangle of roads and tracks, as controversial as it is conspicuous.

Old ruins of a church from the 1200s.

An impressive collection of massive radio satellites.

Buried beneath an unassuming Gotland farm was the largest collection of Viking silver, mostly of Islamic origin.

A museum that dives into Sweden’s maritime past through preserved shipwrecks and interactive exhibits.

This pair of unsuspecting buildings are in fact the very first modern skyscrapers in Europe.

A statue of the heroic plumber stands outside a company that bluffed its way into being Nintendo’s Scandinavian distributor.

A catapult rock from Gotland’s 13th-century civil war is still lodged in Scandinavia's best-preserved medieval city wall.

Known locally as the Jungfrutornet, this Medieval tower hides a dark legend.