Places meltingknight Wants to Go

These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

This ancient goddess temple inspired the design of India’s Parliament House.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.