A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

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

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

This lonely Lithuanian chapel looks more beautiful and haunting in decline than it ever did in life.

Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.

Where a Japanese government official issued transit visas to Jews fleeing from Nazi-occupied Poland.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

A tiny traditional village keeps an ancient method of beekeeping alive.

Ever-growing collection of devils in art.

Museum deep in the catacombs of St. Michael the Archangel Church is explored by touch, sound, and smell.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

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

Things aren't quite what they seem at this mind-bending museum.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

Veryovkina Cave is more than 1.3 miles deep—the deepest known in the world.

When the Soviets destroyed the historic Armenian monastery they somehow left its bell tower intact.

A beautiful but deteriorating monument of Soviet architecture.

A shipwreck named Desire at the shore of Batumi.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.