Places meltingknight Wants to Go

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

The cultural center preserves the history of the Tlingit tribe, who have lived in this Alaska village for more than 10,000 years.

This prehistoric figurine is the oldest known realistic depiction of a human face.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.