Showing posts with the label Estonia

The Leaning Kiipsaare Lighthouse

May 30, 2022

In the sea, off the coast of Saaremaa, Estonia, stands a slender lighthouse leaning dramatically towards the sea. When it was built in 1933 ...

Why The Soviet Union Advertised Products That Didn’t Exist

May 4, 2022

The purpose of commercials is to advertise products and drive sales, but in Soviet Russia under communism they served an altogether differen...

Why is Water Pouring Out of This Tree in Montenegro?

Feb 16, 2018

The Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty recently shared a video about a unique natural phenomenon in a village called Dinoša, located in southe...

Saatse Boot: A Russia-Estonia Border Anomaly

May 5, 2017

In southeast Estonia, in the municipality of Värska Parish, lies a peculiar border irregularity. A small piece of Russian land called the “S...

Struve Geodetic Arc: The 2,820 Km Line That Produced The First Accurate Measurement of The Earth’s Size

Oct 21, 2016

From the northern coast of Norway to the southern coast of Ukraine runs a chain of survey triangulation points that together forms the Struv...

Frozen Ice Balls of Lake Michigan And Stroomi Beach

Sep 6, 2016

Every winter, on the shores of Lake Michigan in the United States, as well as on Stroomi beach in northern Tallinn, Estonia, hundreds of fro...

The Most Visually Impressive Impact Craters on Earth

Mar 3, 2016

It is estimated that the earth’s surface is struck by about 500 meteorites a year, but only about 5 or 6 are large enough to be detected by ...

Ämari Air Force Cemetery

Mar 28, 2015

The Ämari Air Force Cemetery is located in the small borough of Ämari, in Harju County, in northern Estonia, near the Ämari Air Base. The ce...

Kaali Meteorite Crater

Mar 26, 2014

The Kaali Meteorite Crater is located in the village of Kaali on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, 18km from its capital Kuressaare. It was t...

The Witch's Well in Tuhala

Dec 28, 2010

The Witch’s Well, as it is called, is a peculiar attraction in the Estonian village of Tuhala. The well for the most time appears normal. Bu...