Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."

This odd 1930s shop remains stranded in time and shrouded in mystery.

Outdoor art exhibition made of classic Tetris pieces.

One of the few places in the world home to living stromatolites.

This Australian beach became famous when Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared from its shores.

The artist behind this historical depiction of transportation remains a mystery.

The last timber and iron Chinese temple in Australia.

Thousands of used shoes create a unique public art exhibit along this old paddock fence.

Some of the world's largest letters are carved into the limestone bedrock of the Nullarbor Plain.

With a surface area of nearly 500 square meters, welcome to the world's largest paraboloidal dish solar concentrator.

Inside this sculpture park are dozens of woodcrafts crafted by the gentle hands of a chainsaw.

A Japanese sculptor carved an ode to biodiversity into a floodplain.

A nearly lost tribute to an 11-year-old boy killed during a World War I homecoming parade.

Bomb tests and sheep ranchers share the world's largest military land base.

From a distance, this statue of an eagle looks like a giant chicken on a stick.

These giant grain silo portraits capture elements of rural life in Australia.

Giant wheel of cheese marks a dairying village.

The world's tallest shot tower—maybe.

It's home to the antenna that received the first images of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

This strange portrayal of the state's first lieutenant-governor literally stands on its head.

In the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, this marker marks the severe haven of War Kangaroos that once roamed here in the fictional parallel world of Kcymaerxthaere.

These bronze sculptures sow whimsy by hamming it up on a pedestrian mall.

A little-known museum of Ancient Roman and Ancient Greek artifacts.

A miniature cathedral made of 20,948 tiny pieces of marble.