Places JonAkzar Wants to Go

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

Mysterious heaps of stones dot these otherworldly woods.

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

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

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.

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

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

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

A statue of the Soviet leader still stands in a quiet corner of Estonia’s most Russian city.

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

A medieval setting reimagined into a unique art alley.

An abandoned textile factory on the "island of crows" was home to Estonia's first workers' strike.

The enormous isokinetic structure hangs within a science center in Estonia.

Troublesome students were detained in this tiny graffiti-covered university jail.

This abandoned office building is a lasting example of Soviet-era architecture.

See tools once used for processing this coffee-substitute plant before sampling its flavor firsthand.

Its collection offers a glimpse into the Russian Old Believers' centuries-old way of life.

This stunning limestone waterfall is the highest in Estonia.

A historic scientific breakthrough that crosses nine borders.

First point in the Struve Geodetic Arc, a 19th century undertaking to measure the Earth's size and shape.

Historic slum of Tartu.

A wooden statue of an Estonian pagan god and King of the Setos stands atop a sacred hill.

For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.