Burlesque Hospital Themed Restaurant.

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

This enigmatic artifact remained buried in a churchyard for years.

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.

The European Union’s tallest freestanding structure provides radio and television broadcasting to half of Latvia.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

A wooden street sign is the last remnant of this 400-year-old alleyway.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

A temporary art piece to celebrate LGBTQ Pride is now a permanent part of Stockholm's traffic landscape.

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

A concrete mushroom that divided Stockholm residents for nearly a century.

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

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

There's something in the air as history repeats itself at this museum dedicated to the Swedish pop band.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

This small museum nestled inside a souvenir shop is dedicated to Sweden's most well-known toy.

Several cannonballs of mysterious origins decorate two buildings in Stortoget's main square.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.