Visitors can sit and study the board with this Estonian chess legend and International Grandmaster.

A large boulder was declared a local landmark by a popular vlogger.

This striking memorial is one of Estonia’s most controversial Soviet leftovers.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

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

The Latvian city of Ventspils is filled with dozens of cow statues showcasing unique themes.

This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

These traffic lights celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the women's suffrage movement in Lithuania.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

While the U.S. and Soviet Union were engaged in a space race, Poland built a UFO on the ground.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

The former Nazi concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

A relic of World War I that now exist as a piece of public art.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This Transylvanian church has changed its denomination four times.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

A gigantic statue of a Russian soldier watches over the ancient city of Plovdiv, a prominent reminder of the Soviet period in Bulgaria.