Sabile, Latvia
Doll Garden of Sabile
Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.
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Sabile, Latvia
Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.
Riga, Latvia
This enigmatic artifact remained buried in a churchyard for years.
Riga, Latvia
A stone marker and sculpture in the city of Riga stake a claim for the very first community Christmas tree.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
Berlin, Germany
This public observatory is home to the "celestial cannon," the longest pointable telescope in the world.
Berlin, Germany
A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.
Berlin, Germany
One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.
Berlin, Germany
Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.
Berlin, Germany
Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.
Berlin, Germany
When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.
Berlin, Germany
These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.
Berlin, Germany
Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.
Berlin, Germany
Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.
Berlin, Germany
A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.
Kiruna, Sweden
Few remain of these distinctive old trees that once served as natural landmarks for travelers on the road.
Tallinn, Estonia
The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.
Tallinn, Estonia
This former medieval prison now unlocks Estonia’s rich photographic history.
Southend-on-Sea, England
A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.
Maidstone, England
This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.
Bekesbourne, England
An anti-tank graveyard in the English countryside.
Brighton, England
The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.
Medway, England
This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.
East Sussex, England
These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.