Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

In northeastern Poland, the ruins of a massive granary overlook the Narew River.

This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.

A mysterious emblem tucked in an small alleyway is actually the coat of arms of a heroic medieval family.

An abandoned Jewish sanatorium is tucked within the woods of Poland.

The hollow trunk of this 650-year-old tree was used as a hideout by two Jewish brothers during World War II.

This 13th century Gothic brick castle is the largest in the world by surface area.

This fairytale medieval church in Poland originally spent centuries in Norway.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

At first glance, this area seems like just another city park, but the lush landscape hides a dark past.

Deep in a Polish forest, this collection of Iron Age megaliths still holds onto many of its ancient secrets.

Order “Proletariat’s Cutlet” at this communist-themed restaurant allegedly once visited by Lenin.

More than 150 working bells from churches and one-room-schoolhouses across the Great Plains are assembled in one man's yard.

Storage units with a wartime past.

This once rural mansion now sits in the heart of the city.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

A fascinating collection of art made from petrified wood and fossils by two octogenarian twin brothers.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.