This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

Villas that once served as playgrounds for the rich now fall away in decay.

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.

Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

Pigduck of Turku.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

This medieval Estonian tower provides access to a series of tunnels that have been home to soldiers, punks, and fine art.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

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

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

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

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

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

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

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

Things aren't quite what they seem at this mind-bending museum.