The Guardian of Tallinn.

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

The secret cells in the basement of the KGB's Estonian "Grey House" have been preserved as a grim Cold War museum.

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

Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

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

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

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

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

This disappearing geyser has been attributed to witchcraft, but really it's all about rainfall.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

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

First point in the Struve Geodetic Arc, a 19th century undertaking to measure the Earth's size and shape.

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

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