340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

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

This Norwegian satellite station provides ground services to more satellites than any other facility in the world.

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

This small Estonian hill is covered in hand-made twig crosses that are said to bring good luck.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

This Belgian theme park began as a refuge for bored church children and was closed down when a boy lost an arm.

An undulating wicker beast looms peacefully atop a sand dune in Belgium.

Sculpture designed by Turkish artist and professor Mehmet Ali Uysal.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

The private train station King Leopold II built for the Belgian royal family now lies abandoned.