Žagarė, Lithuania
Pan House
What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.
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Žagarė, Lithuania
What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.
Slampe, Latvia
Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.
Irlavas pagasts, Latvia
A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.
Kuldīga, Latvia
The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.
Liepāja, Latvia
These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.
Liepāja, Latvia
This ornate church has survived Nazi and Soviet occupation, including a short stint as a Soviet-era gymnasium and cinema.
Zlēkas parish, Latvia
The only things left in this abandoned Latvian graveyard are a mysterious stone and a ghost story.
Lidumnieki, Latvia
This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.
Olomouc, Czechia
Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.
Wierzbica, Poland
The giant metal fruit was once the symbol of a large farm.
Višķi, Latvia
How this choice of tombstone came to be is still a mystery.
Ligatne, Latvia
A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.
Ridala Parish, Estonia
The gutted remains of this Estonian mansion are a monument to a tragic love.
Rummu, Estonia
The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.
Ämari, Estonia
This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.
Tallinn, Estonia
A forest park outside Tallinn full of architectural and artistic curiosities.
Tallinn, Estonia
A series of concentric circles represented a bold new experiment in socialist urban planning, and it notoriously difficult to get around.
Mustjala Parish, Estonia
Two old windmills got a new life as oversized sculptures of a man and a woman.
Laadla, Estonia
A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.
Orissaare, Estonia
Legend has it that not even Stalin could pull down the 2015 European Tree of the Year.
Kaali, Estonia
Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.
Valga, Estonia
For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.
Helsinki, Finland
Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.
Helsinki, Finland
The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.