This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Historic slum of Tartu.

The only things left in this abandoned Latvian graveyard are a mysterious stone and a ghost story.

The mile-long pier stretches from a ruined fortress out into the Baltic.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

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

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

A small museum contains one of the largest collections of ethnic and traditional headgear in the world.

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

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

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

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

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

Wars fought and wars won are remembered by these abandoned bunker ruins.

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

A symbol of friendship between the mountainous regions of Switzerland and Bhutan.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.