Places Pengwn Wants to Go

Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.

The last permanent exhibit dedicated to the Soviet leader.

Every summer, an open-air swimming pool appears at the base of a Finnish city's beloved winter attraction.

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

A historic scientific breakthrough that crosses nine borders.

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

Pigduck of Turku.

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

Crawling into this primordial cave may feel disconcertingly familiar.

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

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

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

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

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

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

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

Legend has it that not even Stalin could pull down the 2015 European Tree of the Year.

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

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

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