Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

With well over 130 falls and cascades to brag about, Hamilton, Ontario has earned its stripes as the waterfall capital of the world.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

Ever-growing collection of devils in art.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

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

While this monument tile is shrouded in mystery it also marks the end of the longest ever human chain.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

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

The Guardian of Tallinn.

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

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

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

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

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

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.