A stone marker and sculpture in the city of Riga stake a claim for the very first community Christmas tree.

This wooden recreation of a 9th century lake village looks as though it was built yesterday (which it relatively was).

Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.

Surreal works of unreal stone and metal dot the landscape of this Latvian art park.

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

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

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

While this monument tile is shrouded in mystery it also marks the end of the longest ever human chain.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.

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

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

Historic slum of Tartu.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

Ever-growing collection of devils in art.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

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

Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

A mysterious emblem tucked in an small alleyway is actually the coat of arms of a heroic medieval family.