Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

The giantess welcomes travelers to a small Saskatchewan town with a traditional Slavic greeting of bread and salt.

These tenacious 14th-century towers defied demolition and are now a fairytale vacation rental.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

The "Paris of the Prairies" wouldn't be complete without a replica of the iconic landmark.

The worst flood disaster in Welsh history might have been a lot worse if it had not happened on movie night.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

The giant club-wielding wildman stands proud as the symbol of Swedish Lapland.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.