Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Two large posteriors in one giant statue.

This century-old ruined temple was reborn as "The Church of Skate."

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

Stormy conditions send jets of seawater bursting through holes in the cliffs.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

This quaint mortuary chapel hides a stunning Celtic Revival and Art Nouveau interior.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

Victorian-era Egyptomania left its mark on this Nashville landmark.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.

These "50 Fortresses" have been unearthed in the ancient oasis of Khwarezm.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

Ancient barriers wrap around what was once an important stop along the Silk Road.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

The oldest still-inhabited hill fort in India looks like a magnificent golden sandcastle.