Places awesome Wants to Go

This stoic bronze soldier stands as a symbol of Russian sacrifice or Soviet oppression, or maybe both.

This former medieval prison now unlocks Estonia’s rich photographic history.

A medieval setting reimagined into a unique art alley.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

An underground nightclub helped spark a "Singing Revolution."

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

Two well-hidden huts let animal lovers spend the night among the bears, wolves, and other predators of the forest.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

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

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

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

A forest park outside Tallinn full of architectural and artistic curiosities.

Estonia's largest creative city is a vibrant bohemian hub located within a former industrial complex.

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

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

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

This ducal residence was once home to a future Russian empress and a French king in exile.

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

This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.

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

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

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.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.