Military in Latvia

This controversial monument was designed to lionize the Red Army, but also disheartened the Latvian people.

The former Field Marshall and Minister of War to the Russian Imperial Army.

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

This former Nazi labor camp is now a poignant memorial, complete with giant Soviet-style monuments.

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

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

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

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

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

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

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

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