Places meltingknight Wants to Go

One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

A crescent of 12 simple statues poised on a small windswept island off the coast of Newfoundland.

Hidden in the shadow of a rocky fortress is one concubine’s long-forgotten legacy.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

The mansion and cenotaph of the New Hampshire Faust.

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

This spectacular dome managed to survive after being bombed in World War II, in an event known as the "Miracle of Mosta."

A scenic canyon with thick forests and historic ruins.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

Vast fan-shaped British cemetery honouring American servicemen lost in World War II.