A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

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

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

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

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

This memorial honors the first British soldier killed by enemy action on home soil during World War I.

Sidney Scurvy, the interactive computer sailor, takes you on a journey to discover the everyday lives of Cook and his men.

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

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.