Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

This supper-club-turned-concert-venue still serves drinks at its original rotating bar.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

Paranormal activity on the great lakes.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

The country estate of renowned Ukrainian-born artist Ilya Repin.

A sculpture of graceful storks sits atop this fountain in Independence Square.

A window into the luxurious lives led by the landed gentry of Minsk before the 1917 Revolution.

An engineering marvel at the time of its construction, this cross-border waterway sought to connect the Black Sea to the Baltic.

A system of constructed rapids and concrete waterfalls in a linear park on the Slepnya River.

The old fire station features a mural that has more to it than first meets the eye.

A unique museum dedicated to the history of household appliances from across the globe.

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

A monument in the Belarusian city of Polotsk claims to mark the exact midpoint of the European continent.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.