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10 Places

Riga Central Market

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

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Lidumnieki, Latvia

Skrunda-1

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

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Art Nouveau in Riga

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

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The Three Brothers

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

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Castle of Light

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

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Liepāja, Latvia

Karosta North Pier

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

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Ķeipene, Latvia

Sergei Eisenstein Memorial House

A unique museum dedicated to the famed Soviet director and other cinema greats.

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Drabeši parish, Latvia

Araisi Lake Fortress

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

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Riga Aviation Museum

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

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The World of Hat

A small museum contains one of the largest collections of ethnic and traditional headgear in the world.

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