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

Two well-hidden huts let animal lovers spend the night among the bears, wolves, and other predators of the forest.

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

This abandoned fighter jet launch center is now a haunting street racing course.

Legend says lovers who hold hands while venturing along this stone jetty and kiss at the end will remain together forever.

This peculiar border irregularity is the only way to legally enter Russia without a visa.

Wars fought and wars won are remembered by these abandoned bunker ruins.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

Rusted cars, trucks, and buses form a fascinating collection of Soviet-era machinery.

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

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

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

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

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

Man-made mineral caves house massive bat colony.

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

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

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

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

This disappearing geyser has been attributed to witchcraft, but really it's all about rainfall.

This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.

Ireland's only German military cemetery holds the remains of a spy who was moved there under the cover of darkness.