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

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

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

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

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

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

This medieval Estonian tower provides access to a series of tunnels that have been home to soldiers, punks, and fine art.

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

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

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

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

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

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

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

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

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

The Guardian of Tallinn.

Two well-hidden huts let animal lovers spend the night among the bears, wolves, and other predators of the forest.

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

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

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

Historic slum of Tartu.

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

A wooden replica of France's famous tower.