Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

This Nigerian nature reserve is home to the longest canopy walkway in Africa.

The last remaining site of Yoruba worship of the fertility goddess.

In Phetchaburi, Thailand, a roadside vendor cooks his fare with 1,000 mirrors and the power of the sun.

These mysterious 1,000-year-old walls have revealed little about their past.

In this African village, the walls of the chief's compound are painted with beautiful traditional designs.

An abandoned mine pit is now a beautiful, colorful attraction.

This Liberian resort offers comfort, ecofriendly hospitality, and a mission of sustainability.

After surviving decades of medical testing and civil wars, these chimpanzees were abandoned on their own islands.

The world’s largest digital waste dump has become a site where organized criminals hack into confidential government data.

At Ghana's largest wildlife refuge you feel like you're right in the animals' backyard.

This fortified sand barrier dividing a contested territory is the longest minefield in the world.

This remarkably well-preserved mosque stands amid an 11th-century caravansary.

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.

Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents

Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.

Held in a fort that once stood for colonization of the area, this museum now tells the history of its indigenous people.

A rustic place to spend the night, complete with amazing quiver trees and outsider art.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

Welded sphere dropped from space.

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.