Places Sternenfeuer Wants to Go

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

With a design inspired by traditional Latvian textiles, this monument honors the Latvian people who suffered under Soviet occupation.

This mission, established in 1771, is the most remote of California’s Franciscan missions.

A mine in the Sierra Nevada that produced nothing but barren quartz.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A bronze statue to commemorate an Auckland library's beloved feline resident.

A private home collection of more than 3,500 cat figurines.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.