Places meltingknight Wants to Go

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

The artwork commemorates the many ways 20th-century people perished while on the clock.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

This 50-foot rock formation looked like a face that was once believed to be that of a Native American chief.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

A memorial to a giant seabird that was hunted to extinction.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

Wonderfully preserved Victorian factory, complete with a preserved steam powered engine house.

The only surviving choragic monument is a trophy awarded in 334 BC for the winning dramatic chorus.

These ancient symbols freckling a Scottish cliff remained hidden for centuries.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.