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A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

A WWII museum that tries to reenact history.

Described as one of the Baltic region’s most daring and original construction projects.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

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

An installation at the border commemorates a battle from 972.

Oldest surviving milestone in Europe outside of the Roman Empire.

An early 20th-century school building whose clock tower and carved symbols quietly tell the story of the trades once taught inside.

A symbolic cemetery in a suburban square marks the birthplace of Poland's WWII resistance movement.

This 16th-century pole was once used in brutal public executions.

A tribute to the first human in space.

Several 12th-century ruins can be found inside this historical market.

The rusting hulk of a Soviet warship sits on a Polish beach.

A massive mammoth bone has been on display inside this church since the 18th century.

An impressive monument to Poland's independence.

These plaques found across Warsaw commemorate the sites where executions or battles took place during the German occupation.

This lakeside bunker complex in Mamerki, Poland, housed the Supreme Military Command of Nazi Germany during World War II.

This ex-prison dates back to the Middle Ages.

At night, this memorial illuminates a ghostly outline of a footbridge that connected two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto.

A bronze replica of an elm tree that honors the victims that perished in Pawaik Prison.

A cluster of headless, armless sculptures looms within a popular Polish park.