Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

A French museum of wrought iron.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

Built in 1347, this belfry is one of the oldest in the world and survived intense bombing during World War I.

The tomb of a hard traveling saint is constantly covered in shoes as offerings to heal disabled youth.

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

This disused boat elevator was saved from the scrap heap so that visitors could tour its rusting skeleton.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

These ruins reveal the remarkably intact layout of a Roman marketplace.

This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.

This rusted shipwreck directly in front of a century-old abandoned lighthouse looks almost surreal.

When humans abandoned this safari lodge, the lions took over.

Once living up to its name as the grandest hotel in all of Africa, the Grande Hotel is now home to a community of squatters.

Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.