Balti Jaama Turg

This guide to Balti Jaama Turg in Tallinn starts with a doctor named Heinrichsen, who pitched Tallinn's city council in the 1860s on building a shelter for the prematurely buried on this exact plot, fearing that people were sometimes declared dead too soon. You'll hear how the council dithered for roughly a decade and what his plan for cheating death quietly turned into instead, before three limestone warehouses went up here in the 1870s. Listen for the echo of that old fear as you walk past the herring stalls and design shops that fill the space now.