Places meltingknight Wants to Go

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

A grand Yugoslav memorial to the group of partisans who fought and died resisting western Serbia’s Nazi occupation.

An abandoned monument remembering the "Pančevo Holocaust" now stands as a shadow of its former self.

This large sand dune in the Netherlands is home to wind-whipped trees with "floating" roots.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

The toilet-shaped house of South Korea's sanitation pioneer is now a museum to the john.

The ruins of an ancient stadium that hosted gripping chariot and horse races.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.