Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

At 705 feet high, Brazil's "House of Stone" is the largest cave mouth in the world.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

Site full of incredible prehistoric paintings and archeological findings.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

American bombs, morbid memorabilia, and graphic photographs tell the story of the CIA-led “Secret War” from the Pathet Lao perspective.

Heavily bombed during the Vietnam War, this small town turns unexploded munitions into utensils.

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

This ruined temple's giant Buddha statue bears the scars of the Second Indochina War.

This mysteriously shaped boulder may have been used for human sacrifice in ancient times.

A tangible and sobering reminder of an atrocity that took place during a secret war.

A mysterious, hidden cluster of Buddha sculptures carved into the rocks.

Eat a meal surrounded by bomb fragments.

When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

An ancient jungle temple carved into a rocky overhang of the Dane Soung Plateau.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.