Best places: War museums in Tukums, Latvia

Free-admission military history museum in a 14th-c. tower, a remnant of the original city walls.

👍 Very interesting museum about a family that helped Jewish people escape the Holocaust, as well as dissidents during Nazi and Soviet regimes. The architecture is very interesting, showcasing several themes in the story, and the entrance and audioguide are free. Staff was amazing. Since Latvia became...

👍👍 Really interesting and cool stuff. Recommended 9/10

👍👍 The largest partisans’ bunker in the Baltic States was built in 1948 in the Īle forests by the united Latvian-Lithuanian group of national partisans to continue resistance fighting against Soviet rule. On March 17, 1949, the partisans who occupied the bunker at the time fought their last battle agai...