Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

Two World War II aircraft lie within the jungle around this abandoned runway.

Mount Tambora is the site of the largest and deadliest volcanic eruption in recorded human history.

After a 2004 tsunami, this stranded boat was left in place.

Concrete balls on wires constructed to stop train surfing in Indonesia.

A striking series of six bridges connect islands in Indonesia.

This mile-wide crater high in the mountains of Indonesia is the largest gold mine in the world.

The unique design was created by the traditional way communal rice paddies were divided among the indigenous people.

The remote island home of the overlooked explorer who co-discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection.

This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.

A mostly desolate bar on a remote island hosts hundreds of sailors for a few days each year.

The second generation of a mighty volcano rises from the sea.

A palace-fortress ruin in Indonesia complete with legends of two magical tigers, eight bathing angels, and a wish-granting cannon.

A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.

The unique funeral practices of the Toraja can be seen here with graves carved into caves and hung off cliffs.

Annual street carnival celebrating Indonesian heritage.

Subterranean place of worship in Indonesia.

Site of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years, one which may have nearly wiped out humanity altogether.

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

A Balinese resort, empty and trapped in time.

A mud volcano in Indonesia spews out 50,000 cubic meters of mud every day.

Bright Indonesian villages painted in a rainbow of competing color schemes.

The inky volcanic sand leads to reefs teeming with aquatic life waiting to be discovered by snorkelers and divers.

A hundred and twenty year old twelve story lighthouse located on a beautiful Indonesian island.

These broken shards of ancient ruin may hide an ancient pyramid.