Military in Latvia

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

This controversial statue once honoured a Russian Field Marshall, before ultimately being dismantled in a push to remove symbols of Russian influence.

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.