Troublesome students were detained in this tiny graffiti-covered university jail.

An exhibit dedicated to a Lithuanian partisan.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

A series of concentric circles represented a bold new experiment in socialist urban planning, and it notoriously difficult to get around.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

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

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

This stunning limestone waterfall is the highest in Estonia.

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

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

A collection of miniature, symbolic sculptures hides in plain sight across Kyiv.

A tribute to a Ukrainian heroine who went undercover and killed several Nazi operatives.

One of the world’s best microminiaturist, Nicolaï Siadristy displays his lifetime of tiny creations in this museum.

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

A quirky collection flush with information on commode culture from ancient times to modern day.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.