Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

This 5,000-year-old tomb once had its own hinged door.

The Neolithic megalith was one of the first archaeological ruins protected by the British government.

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

Ancient Bronze Age rampart that was used into the middle ages.

This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

The ruins of an ancient city built by Mayan traders is centered around a temple of a sacred feathered serpent deity.

A decommissioned submarine base makes a great space for graffiti art.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

The largest cave in Northern Europe.

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.