Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

The culture that built these Tanzanian ruins displayed advanced knowledge of irrigation technology before mysteriously disappearing.

This historic system is the zero level benchmark for measuring the depths and altitudes of the Baltic.

The last stop in southeast Russia.

During the Soviet era, the medieval capital of Volga Bulgaria served as a substitute for Mecca.

The Russians still use the transmitter Nazis built during World War II to communicate with submarines.

Unused mast taller than every structure in the EU.

The largest art park on the European continent.

A tribute to Richard Feynman is carved into the land he planned to see but never got to visit.

Is it an island or a volcano? That question probably explains why it's uninhabited.

Thousands of biblical and pagan images are carved into this small 12th-century church.

The Uyghur settlement in the middle of a lake continues to raise questions.

An unused hyberbolic electricity pylon kept as architectural monument.

Volcanic irregularity? Odd erosion? Alien eggs? Local legends compete to explain these strange orbs.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

A replica of the straw hut where Vladimir Lenin lived in hiding, disguised as a hay farmer, in 1917.

An abandoned 14th-century castle and prison complex on a small island in the Neva River.

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

Europe's highest peak is a key pillar of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.