A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

Estonia's largest creative city is a vibrant bohemian hub located within a former industrial complex.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.

A monument commemorating the 852 lives lost in the sinking of the MS Estonia.

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

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.

The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.

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

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

This former hospital was once one of the oldest mental health facilities in Europe.

A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

Visit 17th-century ruins on a strikingly beautiful riverside walking trail.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.