Places meltingknight Wants to Go

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

Legend has it that this large rock maze in Sweden was created as punishment by the daughter of a wealthy captain.

Rocks carved with biblical passages in the 1800s.

Not quite the cultural gateway between China and Sweden its designer imagined.

His body was found mysteriously preserved in a Swedish mine over 40 years after his initial disappearance.

Every Tuesday, students let off steam by screaming into the night air.

These mysterious circular formations are actually remnants of 19th century gristmills.

The dome-shaped reservoir of this old water tower produces unique acoustic effects.

Take a schvitz just like an infamous Soviet dictator while his unblinking eye looks on.

A memorial to a Swedish hockey player's "encounter" with aliens.

A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.

Although rarely used, there is still a hidden room for the royal family at the Stockholm central station.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.