Places meltingknight Wants to Go

This peaceful sanctuary is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Colombo.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

This World War II airfield is the last place the bandleader performed before he disappeared.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

This notorious Canadian mental institution was home to some of the first LSD experiments and origin of the word "psychedelic."

For a brief moment, the world was given a flicker of the future of fast food, thanks to a visionary inventor.

An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

The 32nd president's sprawling cottage sits on an island enclave jointly managed by the U.S. and Canada.

An arresting temple full of mosaics as colorful as the politician they memorialize.

The third-largest island in Canada is one of the remotest places on Earth.

This mill on Lake Erie appears to shrink as a viewer approaches thanks to an optical illusion.

A large spinning bath of liquid mercury, used to probe the early universe.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

A painted tribute to an ancient Egyptian king lurks along a stretch of Scottish shore.