Rubbing the buttons along this statue's coat is considered good luck.

This 16th-century cemetery became a recreational park during the Soviet occupation—today it's a little bit of both.

This magnificent Art Deco church is a reflection of Lithuania’s turbulent history.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

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

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.

The first monument in Estonia that was made by an Estonian sculptor.

A shining memorial to a Belgian hero is said to bring luck to anyone who touches it.

This residence straddles a border between Belgium and the Netherlands.

A lovely biographical museum in the artist's home of 24 years.

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

This ancient theater, restored in the 20th century, lives on as a venue for dramatic and musical performances.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

A unique sculpture calls the outside of this steakhouse home.

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

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.