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

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

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

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

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

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.

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

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

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

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

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

A rotting air force base is now home to rare birds and scarce plants.

This concrete church spent a period of its history as a World War II bunker.

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

Colorful lights and mirror-like brine pools create trippy illusions within the historic mine.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.