Places meltingknight Wants to Go

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Centuries of human activity have forged an eerie landscape of ruins and craters on an exposed and windswept hilltop.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

Amazingly detailed marble cinerary urns that once held the cremains of Roman elite.

A quarry cum sculpture park where the works of art are chiseled into the very walls.

Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.

This tiny little cave was said to have been a refuge for a saint with a glowing arm.

This tiny island is home to the world's largest colony of Northern gannets.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

A curious structure built just for the birds.

Ruined castle with subterranean vaulted Goblin Ha' or "Goblin Hall."

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

This underground power plant looks more like a super-villian's lair than a public work.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.