Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

This ancient town is full of stunning Ottoman architecture and streets so narrow trash collection is done by donkey.

A refurbished locomotive from a bygone era in the middle of the Jordanian desert.

Concentrated around the Dead Sea, these surprising canyons are filled with coursing water, fish, and even crabs.

A bathhouse from the second Islamic Caliphate decorated with frescoes of constellations, pleasure gardens, and naked ladies.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.

Despite being tiny and rural this Georgian airport looks like a sci-fi boondoggle.

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.

Hundreds of stones dangle from barren trees in the middle of the desert.

One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.

Modern-day cave dwellers carve elaborate homes out of volcanic debris.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

Ancient structures used to make and preserve ice in the deserts of Persia.

This ruined fortress was the stronghold for a persecuted medieval leader and his infamous Assassins.