Places davearch Wants to Go

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

This building featuring Brutalist architecture has a rich media production history.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

A massive tribute to Estonian history and culture.

Take a seat and hear a song by the composer Frédéric Chopin.

The first monument in Estonia that was made by an Estonian sculptor.

Rubbing the buttons along this statue's coat is considered good luck.

During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.

A unique sculpture calls the outside of this steakhouse home.

Walk along the medieval fortifications that have been protecting Tallinn since the 14th century.

This set of concrete chambers resonates according to different notes of octaves.

A medieval setting reimagined into a unique art alley.

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

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

The Guardian of Tallinn.