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.

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

An artificial hill and apparent calendric structure built in the Early Middle Ages immortalizes a legendary Polish princess.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.