Places meltingknight Wants to Go

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

This abandoned bunker looks out over the Atlantic from its clifftop perch.

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.

A lonely medieval monastery on an uninhabited island.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

Don't bother sending any mail to this ghost town.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

This colossal couch is an unlikely monument to Europe's first female Doctor of Law.