This Latvian shot factory is still used twice a year to manufacture bullets the old-fashioned way.

How this choice of tombstone came to be is still a mystery.

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.

This remote sandstone cliff has one of the richest collections of Livonian petroglyph marks.

This enigmatic artifact remained buried in a churchyard for years.

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.

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

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

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

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

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

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 former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

An exhibit dedicated to a Lithuanian partisan.

A 300-kilogram egg sculpture that embodied a neighborhood revival.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

This lonely Lithuanian chapel looks more beautiful and haunting in decline than it ever did in life.

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

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.