These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

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

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

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

An abandoned textile factory on the "island of crows" was home to Estonia's first workers' strike.

During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.

A unique sculpture calls the outside of this steakhouse home.

For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.

Walk along the medieval fortifications that have been protecting Tallinn since the 14th century.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.

This striking memorial is one of Estonia’s most controversial Soviet leftovers.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

A medieval setting reimagined into a unique art alley.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

This medieval Estonian tower provides access to a series of tunnels that have been home to soldiers, punks, and fine art.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

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

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