Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Now a pile of ruins and rubble, this was a lovely mountain town as recently as 1960.

A whimsical cottage from the 1300s with a preserved Victorian-era post office inside.

This magical space partly designed by Antoni Gaudi is one of the best examples of romantic gardening in the Mediterranean.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

Unusual outdoor collection of sculptures.

Man-made waterfall is the tallest in Mainland China.

A replica of the Statue of Liberty watches over the tomb of 72 Chinese revolutionaries.

Three floors above a 2,000-year-old royal tomb is a rare collection of ancient porcelain pillows.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.

On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

This elderly couple's hand-picked collection of rare gems is one of the finest in all of Iceland.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

This lost city belongs to one of the earliest civilizations in the world.