Places meltingknight Wants to Go

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

Two identical statues by Fernando Botero, one blown to pieces in a terrorist bombing, the other donated as a gift for peace.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

An unsolved murder victim's grave which may or may not contain her body.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

An oddly shaped tower built to mark the acquittal of Admiral Keppel in a controversial 1770s case.

This jewel of an engine is one of Northern England's finest surviving legacies of the Industrial Revolution, even catching the eye of Henry Ford.

Things roll uphill on this Mexican street that seems to defy gravity.

This tallest folly in the world began its life as an elaborate factory chimney.

An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.

This folly built to commemorate an aristocratic victory over Catholic rebellion plays tricks on the eye.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.