A unique museum dedicated to the history of household appliances from across the globe.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

The oldest funicular in Lithuania has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.

Ever-growing collection of devils in art.

Folky pharmaceuticals abound in this medicinal reliquary.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

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

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

The secret cells in the basement of the KGB's Estonian "Grey House" have been preserved as a grim Cold War museum.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

This behemoth bovine guards an Estonian town and is a memorial to the lost species.

A decommissioned submarine base makes a great space for graffiti art.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.