It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

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

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

A small museum contains one of the largest collections of ethnic and traditional headgear in the world.

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

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.

Built to ward off Napoleon's army, this city-sized abandoned Russian fort is now perfect for urban exploration.

This Latvian shot factory is still used twice a year to manufacture bullets the old-fashioned way.

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

How this choice of tombstone came to be is still a mystery.

You would never come across this tiny green oasis if you didn't know it existed.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.