Places meltingknight Wants to Go

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

The timeworn "Yankee Stadium" of the fastest game in the world isn't going anywhere.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

The culture that built these Tanzanian ruins displayed advanced knowledge of irrigation technology before mysteriously disappearing.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

Beautifully carved tombstones fill this unmarked graveyard, uniquely situated near the village's famous stone wine cellars.

Tombstones carved to look like tree trunks are used for multiple generations of family members.

Some of the ancient-looking huts among these strange rock formations aren't ancient at all, but built as part of a movie set.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 35 species live and some of them roam free alongside their human visitors.

This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike."

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

The art critic claiming that "only an ape could have done this" was in fact right.

A colossal strolling Pinocchio that was greeted with more outrage than whimsy.

This abandoned urban warfare facility is a dream come true for airsoft and paintball enthusiasts.