Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

This wooden recreation of a 9th century lake village looks as though it was built yesterday (which it relatively was).

A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.

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

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.

Burlesque Hospital Themed Restaurant.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

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

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

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

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.