Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Thousands of people walk over this fantastic work of art every day, but how many notice it?

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

This mysterious cliffside carving of an ancient Hittite deity has baffled scholars for centuries.

In this African village, the walls of the chief's compound are painted with beautiful traditional designs.

The first mosque in Ghana is known as the "Mecca of West Africa."

At Ghana's largest wildlife refuge you feel like you're right in the animals' backyard.

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

A mere stone's throw from Islamabad exists a spectacular display of three millennia of humanity's progress.

These mysterious 1,000-year-old walls have revealed little about their past.

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

This abandoned Swedish folkpark offers an amazing view over the town of Överkalix.

The world’s largest knitted mitten is displayed in one of Sweden’s smallest Arctic villages.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

In ancient times, these fallen standing stones supported a massive house.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.