Places meltingknight Wants to Go

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

Honoring combatants from Portsmouth who served in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This monument memorializes a violent massacre where colonial police killed 50 striking dockworkers.

A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

One of the few remaining Rosenwald Schools left in Virginia.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

This gravity-defying rock formation is one of Big Bend’s natural wonders.

A priceless work of art created by the saint's own blood sister hangs in a San Antonio basilica.

One of the highest points in Bexar county offers birdseye views of San Antonio and a four-story stone tower.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

The notorious pirate William Kidd might have buried his treasure around this local pond.

Initially meant to immortalize the valor of the colonizer, this monument is now a symbol of Mauritanian resistance.

Two stone markers honor the Nipmuc people who first settled here millennia ago.

Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.