Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Boats must transform into railroad cars to navigate this Polish canal.

Poland's oldest salt mine has nearly everything one needs to live underground forever.

What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".

The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.

This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

This imposing 20th-century castle was abandoned before it was ever completed.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

These massive moving sand dunes have swallowed an entire village and are still on the run.

A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.

An abandoned Nazi explosives plant founded by the inventor of dynamite is now an underground museum.

The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.