Places meltingknight Wants to Go

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

Long before air conditioning, Persian architects found an ingenious way to cool off.

The smallest Mexican land grant in California was given, and then taken from, a 19th-century teacher and nurse.

Two pillars set 10 paces apart commemorate the "last notable American duel."

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.

A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

An informal walk of fame in front of a Hollywood office building remembers a comedic great and his associates.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

The perfect spot for a picnic, right next to a giant ballistic missile.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

The first attack on the continental U.S. during WWII occurred off the coast of a quiet California golf course.