Places Gradius Wants to Go

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

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.

A WWII museum that tries to reenact history.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

This lonely Lithuanian chapel looks more beautiful and haunting in decline than it ever did in life.

The secret cells in the basement of the KGB's Estonian "Grey House" have been preserved as a grim Cold War museum.

This small Estonian hill is covered in hand-made twig crosses that are said to bring good luck.

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

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

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

The gutted remains of this Estonian mansion are a monument to a tragic love.

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

Tombstones buried in overgrown grass mark the deceased occupants of this abandoned graveyard.

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

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

A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.