With some awesome road trip options in the surrounding area, having your own car makes good sense. Without one, it’d be much harder to soak up everything that Vyborg, 35 miles away, has to offer. Explore the area beginning with Vyborg Castle, Red Square and Lenin’s House Museum. Locals will also probably point you toward St. Petersburg, 40 miles away. If you can only find time for one thing here, let it be Mariinsky Theatre. (But we’re also big fans of C-189 Submarine Museum and Yusupov Palace.)