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The Peeping Tom of Tallinn in Tallinn, Estonia

Hidden in plain sight near the top of an Art Nouveau house in Tallinn's Old Town, a bespectacled stone figure watches from the facade. His gaze is fixed across the street, toward the building opposite. Local legend has it that the figure was created as revenge. An old man across the street had a habit of training his opera glasses on a young merchant's wife, especially when she was undressing for…

The Peeping Tom of Tallinn in Tallinn, Estonia

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