Rakvere

Rakvere, a tiny city in northern Estonia, is known for an architectural curiosity found nowhere else: the Rakvere door, a wooden door style reflecting German baroque and 1920s expressionism, with a distinctive pointed raised rectangle at its centre, still visible on houses around town. Granted city rights in 1302 by the Danish king Erik VI, it also holds a ruined medieval fortress and sits within reach of the Gulf of Finland, with a café and restaurant scene that outpaces the town's size.

• Population14,984
• Nearest water from center0.7 km
• Nearest mountain from center28.5 km
• UNESCO within 50 km2