Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

This old and disused water tower has received a new life as an art gallery with a piano staircase.

A large boulder was declared a local landmark by a popular vlogger.

This set of concrete chambers resonates according to different notes of octaves.

The enormous isokinetic structure hangs within a science center in Estonia.

It's rumored this unique Baltic beacon was designed by Gustave Eiffel himself.

One of the oldest lighthouses in the world has been in continuous use since it was first built in 1531.