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A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

The gutted remains of this Estonian mansion are a monument to a tragic love.

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

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

The cave holds a spectacular array of stalactites and stalagmites, including one shaped like a giant human heart.

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

A rather vulgar example of the transition from Latin to the Italian vernacular.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

The bright red cars take travelers through breathtaking Tuscan scenery.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.