Places Deano Wants to Go

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

Explore 150 years of Estonian rail history in a terminal once built for Tsar Nicholas II.

This Estonian watchtower looks like a big tree with two giant bird nests on it, complete with a "golden egg."

A wealthy aristocratic family built this Disney-worthy, fairy-tale castle.

This abandoned fighter jet launch center is now a haunting street racing course.

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.

A decommissioned submarine base makes a great space for graffiti art.

Rusted cars, trucks, and buses form a fascinating collection of Soviet-era machinery.

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

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

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.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

This sculptural representation of an Andersen fairy tale had to be pushed away for being too grim.

Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.

Positioned outside a church, this sinister folkloric figure incited protests in both 1902 and 2002.

The final resting place of the author who gave us the Little Mermaid, the Ugly Duckling, and many more beloved fairy tales.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

A piece of the front end of a British cruiser that was used as a block ship in World War I.