Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.

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

Surreal works of unreal stone and metal dot the landscape of this Latvian art park.

Built to ward off Napoleon's army, this city-sized abandoned Russian fort is now perfect for urban exploration.

A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

This small Estonian hill is covered in hand-made twig crosses that are said to bring good luck.

Man-made mineral caves house massive bat colony.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

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

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

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

For a couple of months each year this Swedish city turns into a festive neon phantasmagoria.

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.