Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

With well over 130 falls and cascades to brag about, Hamilton, Ontario has earned its stripes as the waterfall capital of the world.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

One family's environment-friendly hobbit-house in Wales.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

The largest game reserve in Africa is home to thousands of species but refuses to house humans.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.