A statue of the Soviet leader still stands in a quiet corner of Estonia’s most Russian city.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

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

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

Villas that once served as playgrounds for the rich now fall away in decay.

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

A muddy alien landscape that is home to rare species of exotic plants.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

A fire once nearly devoured this gorgeous 14th-century Gothic cathedral.

The European towns of Brașov and Râșnov each have proud signs reminiscent of the Hollywood sign.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

This behemoth bovine guards an Estonian town and is a memorial to the lost species.

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.

This snug medieval lane is one of the narrowest streets in the world.