This church also serves as a lighthouse complete with a beacon.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

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

A statue built to honor the elite soldiers who fought for Latvia during World War I.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

The former Field Marshall and Minister of War to the Russian Imperial Army.

This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.

A Latvian rescuer who saved countless lives during World War II.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

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

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.

Admire an ever-changing landscape of stone sculptures.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.