Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Some 20,000 dust-covered unwanted vehicles languish in the desert.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

This magical and eccentric stepwell is a hidden treasure within the ancient fort city of Mandu.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

The ancient water tanks remain some of the ruined city’s most beautiful architecture.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

Ruins of two abandoned stations destroyed by the power they sought to harness.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

The oldest funicular in Lithuania has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

Though much of the castle was robbed of its stones, the underlying earthworks are among the best-preserved in England.

A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.

A 142-foot-tall Q-tip on Bristol's skyline.

17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.