The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

The Jelgava Palace holds one of the few burial places of governor’s dynasties that is open to the public.

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

This 18th-century project to build the world's tallest gravity dam was never completed.

A towering monument in Spain has proven to be more labor-intensive than initially planned.

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

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

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

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

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.