Places Lillive Wants to Go

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

This old and disused water tower has received a new life as an art gallery with a piano staircase.

This behemoth bovine guards an Estonian town and is a memorial to the lost species.

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

Two old windmills got a new life as oversized sculptures of a man and a woman.

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

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

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

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

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

This 16th-century cemetery became a recreational park during the Soviet occupation—today it's a little bit of both.

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

This little gem in the Gulf of Riga has a very rich heritage and distinct culture.

Hundreds of unusual wheel crosses poke above the earth in this small Estonian cemetery.

A series of concentric circles represented a bold new experiment in socialist urban planning, and it notoriously difficult to get around.

A massive tribute to Estonian history and culture.

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

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

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

This stunning limestone waterfall is the highest in Estonia.

A unique sculpture calls the outside of this steakhouse home.

This former medieval prison now unlocks Estonia’s rich photographic history.

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

This old Estonian mine has been kept like a sprawling time capsule of the local shale industry.