Places meltingknight Wants to Go

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

From a distance, Latin America's first Baha'i Temple looks like an enormous egg perched atop a hill.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Local legend says this unusual chimney is actually a broken-hearted man's tomb.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.