Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

A series of abstract sculptures pop up from an otherworldly volcanic landscape.

A "house to which to flee" for settlers in colonial Pennsylvania.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

A preserved portion of an ancient Athens barrier is displayed in a hotel basement.

Originally slated to become a luxurious resort, this structure is now a graffiti haunt reclaimed by nature.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

When struck, the strange stones in this park ring like bells.

This granite mountain is the largest rock in Africa and the second-largest monolith in the world.

This massive rock balanced for thousands of years being tossed here during a volcanic eruption.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

Henry VIII's forgotten castle was built by the gunpowder-obsessed king to be defended solely by cannons.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

Unfortunately, you can no longer spend a night in this single-person treetop hotel.

The ruins of an ancient fortification wall sit in front of and underneath this boutique hotel.

Nicolas Schöffer's massive interactive sculpture was assembled in 1961 and brought back online in 2016.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

An eerie, protected forest of old-growth oak trees, many of which are now dead.