Places Lillive Wants to Go

This seaside pine grove features an exclusive watchtower that presents amazing views.

Rent a barrel for a personal view of where the Baltic Sea meets the Gulf of Riga.

This remote sandstone cliff has one of the richest collections of Livonian petroglyph marks.

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

This former Nazi labor camp is now a poignant memorial, complete with giant Soviet-style monuments.

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

Built to ward off Napoleon's army, this city-sized abandoned Russian fort is now perfect for urban exploration.

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

The mile-long pier stretches from a ruined fortress out into the Baltic.

This misspelled graffiti reappears every time it is removed.

A Finnish artist's unique fauna statuary.

This island castle now hosts a world-famous opera festival.

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

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

This once-mighty brick factory is now a unique museum experience.

A rare octagonal brick beacon on an isolated island in the Baltic.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

This honeycomb-textured tafone looks like a petrified troll head.

More than 200 eclectic sculptures surround the artist's home.

This bed and breakfast is steeped in history and offers guests a unique way to experience nature—glass igloos on a frozen lake.

The etchings on this narrow channel between two islands bear witness to maritime travelers who have passed through since the Middle Ages.

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

Pigduck of Turku.

Finland's northernmost zoo is home to the country's only polar bears.