During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.

Walk along the medieval fortifications that have been protecting Tallinn since the 14th century.

A spectacular Petrine Baroque summer palace commissioned for Catherine I by Peter the Great.

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."

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

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

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

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.

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

A replica of the straw hut where Vladimir Lenin lived in hiding, disguised as a hay farmer, in 1917.

One of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens in the world.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

Thousands of letters to Santa get delivered to this mailbox in Greenland.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

A geothermal pool in North Iceland that is said to be the bathing spot of the legendary Grettir the Strong.