The labyrinthine home of the National Archives of Estonia is an experimental blend of architecture, art, and history.

A forest park outside Tallinn full of architectural and artistic curiosities.

A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

This disappearing geyser has been attributed to witchcraft, but really it's all about rainfall.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

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

Dozens of Soviet-era trains and carriages fill this outdoor museum.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

100 years later, they're still down there.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.