Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.

A Canadian port town is oddly home to two of the largest tree burls in the world.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

This historic system is the zero level benchmark for measuring the depths and altitudes of the Baltic.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The former global standard for the exact mass of one kilogram sits under lock and key outside Paris.

Two massive boulders, rocking back and forth with the ebbing of the sea.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

The tomb of the mythological founder of Padua is not hidden in some obscure crypt, but stands right in the middle of the city square.

In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

Ancient stone graves shaped like ships provided a Viking-like burial to carry the dead to the afterlife.

This trio of stone spires claims to be the only preserved medieval execution site in Europe.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

This magnificent abandoned hotel has long been haunted by its Nazi past.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.