Places Shastified Wants to Go

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

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

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

The last permanent exhibit dedicated to the Soviet leader.

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

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

Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

The first designer power line in Estonia.

The tallest lighthouse in the Nordic countries was also the site of a bloody World War II battle.

This abandoned office building is a lasting example of Soviet-era architecture.

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

Tombstones buried in overgrown grass mark the deceased occupants of this abandoned graveyard.

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

A forest park outside Tallinn full of architectural and artistic curiosities.

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

An underground nightclub helped spark a "Singing Revolution."

The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A rare octagonal brick beacon on an isolated island in the Baltic.