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

Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.

Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

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

This enigmatic artifact remained buried in a churchyard for years.

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

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

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

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

This abandoned beacon is moving closer and closer to the sea.

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

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

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

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

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

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