Places Sternenfeuer Wants to Go

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

A unique collection of Western and Japanese-style graves.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

This ruined fort and statue are a testament to the last king of Kaua‘i’s savvy diplomacy skills, which briefly brought Russians to Hawai‘i.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

The largest-known fragment of an asteroid that exploded over the southern Ural region in 2013.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

This effigy of Peter the Great is greatly disproportionate.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

This airfield played a key role in both World War II and the Cold War.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

This 252 step staircase offers stunning views of San Jose.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

A mysterious monument covered in a binary code marks the heart of tech.