PROTO Invention Factory

This guide to PROTO Invention Factory in Tallinn starts with a nineteen-twelve foundry built by Petersburg tycoon Emanuel Nobel and his partner Arthur Lessner, whose shipyard launched submarines for the Tsar's navy before decades of Soviet ship repair sealed the building off. Today it hosts virtual-reality dinners, where guests trade headsets for courses between forays into Estonian folklore and underwater fantasy, wandering bogs and farmyards in search of a kratt, the folk creature stitched from stolen odds and ends. A second story drops diners underwater between courses of local, seasonal ingredients.