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

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

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

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

A century-old prison in the heart of Vilnius is now a lively bar, dance club, and artist residency.

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

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

A miraculous three-handed portrait of a saint can be found inside this church.

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

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

Epicurean and holy traditions converge in what may be the oldest restaurant in Europe.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

The place where World War I began.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.