Places mcurtis Wants to Go

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This striking memorial is one of Estonia’s most controversial Soviet leftovers.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

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

Take a seat and hear a song by the composer Frédéric Chopin.

A unique sculpture calls the outside of this steakhouse home.

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

Estonia's largest creative city is a vibrant bohemian hub located within a former industrial complex.

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

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

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

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

A wooden replica of France's famous tower.

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

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

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

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

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.