The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

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

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

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

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

The former Nazi concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

A merchant court dedicated to the fictitious King Arthur is heavily adorned with bizarre Renaissance art.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

Sip whey-based vodka at the first Native-owned distillery opened on a reservation in centuries.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

This colorful gate stands as an entrance to the walled city of Old San Juan.

A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.