Places meltingknight Wants to Go

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

A crushed gate and giant bronze head serve as a reminder of Greece's fight for freedom.

This beehive tomb built for royalty sat hidden for over 3,000 years.

Home to 23 voluptuous and instantly lovable sculptures by one of Latin America's most celebrated artists.

This small museum tucked within a subway station holds pieces from Madrid's past.

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

Former bridge turned into an observation tower.

A bizarre sculpture garden in the south of France.

A little known pile of scraps and plaques mark the grave of a downed RAF bomber.

Since 1920, one small company has defined the distinctive chairs of Paris' sidewalk bistros.

A precariously balanced goose-shaped boulder with a dark legend.

This stone memorial commemorates a group of French patriots slain by French fascists.

Fur-lined metal pod dangling in the French countryside.

Before this bridge was built people had to wait for the ferryman, an annoyance that, the story has it, gave the town its name.

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

This disused boat elevator was saved from the scrap heap so that visitors could tour its rusting skeleton.

The vibrant buildings in the “capital of the comic strip” celebrate the art form that made it famous.

A once drab public housing estate is transformed into a colorful gallery of trompe l’oeil murals.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

More than 140 granite sculptures decorate the lawn of this French sculptor.

Whether hero or rogue, his silver bullet is said to have taken down the murderous "Beast of Gevaudan."

Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

A garden of massive sculptures sits in Jean Lindard's backyard.