Places TinySputniks Wants to Go

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The highest peak in Puerto Rico is home to a rare fern that can only be found on six trees at its summit.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

On this Puerto Rican island, many abandoned naval ammunition bunkers sit open while a few have been padlocked by locals as personal storage.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

This limestone cave offers an incredible view of the Río Grande de Arecibo valley.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.