Places meltingknight Wants to Go

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The English Civil War began right here in 1642.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

On special occasions, one of the world's tallest artificial waterfalls gushes down the side of this Chinese skyscraper.

At a Japanese train station, a goddess emerges from a dumpling.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

This colonial fort is an intriguing example of Renaissance military architecture.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.

After years of slow decline, a derelict Gothic castle is now being restored to life.

The only surviving piece of Copenhagen's 16th-century defensive wall.

Installed as a beacon of hope for a hurricane-racked island, the statue had to be moved multiple times due to the eroding coast.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

The bulletproof cross stands at the only operational Christian cemetery in Pakistan's most populated city.

The largest prehistoric cemetery on the Balearic Islands dates back over 2,500 years.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

Semi-mystical manmade towers of rocks decorate this rocky seaside.

This "flat geyser" bubbles up out of the ground periodically like a disappearing river.

A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

The first newspaper printed by an expeditionary force was published in this colonial mansion.