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

Learn to drink tea like an Estonian at this museum.

Troublesome students were detained in this tiny graffiti-covered university jail.

Two well-hidden huts let animal lovers spend the night among the bears, wolves, and other predators of the forest.

The gutted remains of this Estonian mansion are a monument to a tragic love.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

The secret cells in the basement of the KGB's Estonian "Grey House" have been preserved as a grim Cold War museum.

Rusted cars, trucks, and buses form a fascinating collection of Soviet-era machinery.

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

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

A decaying, yet still functioning, work of communist architecture.

Founded in the 4th-century, the town of Pernik plays host to the Surva Carnival⁠—a magnificent display of masked Kukeri dancers.

A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.

A small museum built by a family that survived the Siege of Sarajevo.

This unusual hostel provides a glimpse of life in a city under siege.