Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

One of the world's oldest olive trees, thought to be over 2,000 years old.

The enormous isokinetic structure hangs within a science center in Estonia.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

Built to ward off Napoleon's army, this city-sized abandoned Russian fort is now perfect for urban exploration.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

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

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

This wooden recreation of a 9th century lake village looks as though it was built yesterday (which it relatively was).

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

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

Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.

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

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A stone marker and sculpture in the city of Riga stake a claim for the very first community Christmas tree.

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.

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

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

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.