Places meltingknight Wants to Go

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This odd-shaped relic from the 1964 New York World's Fair found its way back home to Wisconsin.

The only one of New Hampshire's original 14 World War II watchtowers to survive in near-original condition.

A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.

England’s ancient oak tree has such an impressive girth, people have been hosting parties within the hollow trunk for centuries.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A legendary rocking stone, returned to its clifftop perch.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

A trio of giant megalithic stones in the middle of a golf course.

A giant gleaming memorial named for a coal miner who gave his life to the pits.

The site of one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, created when a massive bomb dump accidentally exploded.

This early 19th-century blast furnace only survived because it was a financial and technical failure.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

A long-overdue monument to the forgotten British men drafted into the coal mines during World War II.

An exceptional assortment of fossils recovered from private collections.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.