Places meltingknight Wants to Go

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

Landmark dedicated to the plight of the American Indian in the 21st century.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.

Inscriptions found in the Majella mountains reveal stories of resistance and rebellion after the unification of Italy.

Picnic on the seashore in the footsteps of ancient kings, protected by giant mythical cat beasts.

A once-stately trading fort is now a ruin slowly being consumed by the sea.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

The most peaceful "country" in the Middle East.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Island, once a pirate hideout, now home to an abandoned resort.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini fell in love with this lonely 13th-century tower while making his most famous film.

This small shrine is dedicated to the designer of the first Russian fighter jet and his brother, who became Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

The ruins of a 13th-century monastery that long served as a place of refuge from wars and raids.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

The ruins of a medieval monastery built on a perilous slope.