Places Atikin Wants to Go

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

See an anatomy teaching collection assembled in the 1920s and 1930s.

A collection of expressive stone sculptures in a scenic and serene riverfront location.

A Latvian rescuer who saved countless lives during World War II.

The Jelgava Palace holds one of the few burial places of governor’s dynasties that is open to the public.

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

A map store filled with original Cold War era Russian maps of the world.

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

This enigmatic artifact remained buried in a churchyard for years.

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

This statue is dedicated to the animal cosmonauts that perished during space flight experiments.

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

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

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

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

The ruins of a monastery that dates to the 7th century.

The ruins of a sixth-century monastery sit on the banks of the River Shannon.

This rare and ancient Christian relic is one of Ireland’s oldest freestanding stone crosses.