This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

This Croatian fairytale castle is slowly falling apart thanks to years of neglect.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

A line of disused military bunkers built to defend against Nazi invasion lies hidden on the outskirts of the city.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

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

Estonia's largest creative city is a vibrant bohemian hub located within a former industrial complex.

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

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

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

The largest offshore wind farm in the world would be even bigger if it weren't for some pesky birds.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.