Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

A 100-plus-year-old mill transformed into a hotel and restaurant.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

These tiny cabins on a cableway have been carrying visitors at a Baltic resort down to the beach since 1912.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.

This ornate church has survived Nazi and Soviet occupation, including a short stint as a Soviet-era gymnasium and cinema.

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

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

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

Mysterious heaps of stones dot these otherworldly woods.

What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.

This remote sandstone cliff has one of the richest collections of Livonian petroglyph marks.

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

A wooden statue of an Estonian pagan god and King of the Setos stands atop a sacred hill.

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

This Estonian watchtower looks like a big tree with two giant bird nests on it, complete with a "golden egg."

This abandoned beacon is moving closer and closer to the sea.

It's rumored this unique Baltic beacon was designed by Gustave Eiffel himself.

Rent a barrel for a personal view of where the Baltic Sea meets the Gulf of Riga.

These abandoned vessels are destined to be reclaimed by the forest.