Places Ru Chia Wants to Go

An impressive ensemble of sculptures that survived the Soviet regime.

A 100-plus-year-old mill transformed into a hotel and restaurant.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

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

This medieval Estonian tower provides access to a series of tunnels that have been home to soldiers, punks, and fine art.

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

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

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

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

Man-made mineral caves house massive bat colony.

You would never guess that before World War II this lonely field was a bustling German city.

A small monument in Lithuania marks the geographic center of Europe—or at least one of the claimants.

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

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

It's rumored this unique Baltic beacon was designed by Gustave Eiffel himself.

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

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

Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.