Places Seeking the Edge Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.

One of the best-preserved wooden manor houses in Latvia, decorated with painted interior walls.

A map store filled with original Cold War era Russian maps of the world.

This ducal residence was once home to a future Russian empress and a French king in exile.

This seaside pine grove features an exclusive watchtower that presents amazing views.

Rent a barrel for a personal view of where the Baltic Sea meets the Gulf of Riga.

This wooden recreation of a 9th century lake village looks as though it was built yesterday (which it relatively was).

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.

A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.

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

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

This statue is dedicated to the animal cosmonauts that perished during space flight experiments.

Built to ward off Napoleon's army, this city-sized abandoned Russian fort is now perfect for urban exploration.

These abandoned vessels are destined to be reclaimed by the forest.

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

Mysterious heaps of stones dot these otherworldly woods.

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.