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The southern Estonian town of Tartu is a good stopover if you're doing a Baltic city hop, lying as it does mid-way between Tallinn and Latvia's Riga. It's a university town with all the young people's trappings that go with it, but be on your guard at Tartu University. It's the home to a long-used Student Lock-Up--fortunately now only a tourist attraction.

In previous centuries misbehaving students got locked up here for hours, days or weeks at a time, depending on the seriousness of their crime. Turning up late for class too often gave them just a couple of hours of captive time--still enough though to contribute to the artwork and poetry inscribed in the ceiling and walls. But not returning your library books on time could score you two days lock-up just for a first offence. Talk about tough love.

[Image via jbelluch/Flickr]

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