Places meltingknight Wants to Go

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

Bombed and burned, this monument represents the often controversial ties between Vietnam and Cambodia.

A pyramid commemorates the birthplace of James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

Elegant marble and old vaults fill this historic Dutch bank turned office space.

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

The giant scales in this museum can still tell if someone is one of the devil's brides just by weight.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

The extensive relics of an ancient Roman and Phoenician fish processing plant hide in a town park.

A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.