Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

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

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

This ornate church has survived Nazi and Soviet occupation, including a short stint as a Soviet-era gymnasium and cinema.

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

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

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

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

Mysterious heaps of stones dot these otherworldly woods.

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

These abandoned vessels are destined to be reclaimed by the forest.

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

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

A statue erected in honor of the toadish nickname given to Jersey residents by the French.

This natural crater along the coast of Jersey may take its name from the devil statues who have watched over it.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

This church is dedicated to the patron saint of seafarers.

An often overlooked ancient site in downtown Athens with substantial history (and nature).

Modernist design and funerary customs meet Spartan traditions in this one-of-a-kind graveyard.

The heads and relics of 179 monks slaughtered by pirates are on display within this Ceonobic Monastery.

This black sand beach was crafted from volcanic explosions including the historic Minoan eruption.