Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

This little-known hero has been protecting "The Fens" for close to 400 years, and now from its most powerful challenger yet: climate change.

A forlorn fishing village on the coast of Labrador, full of shipwrecks and Spanish gold.

The largest hewn stone in history.

A chaotic collection of maritime artifacts, art, and really whatever else happens to be around.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

This quirky museum will make you question everything, including the shape of the planet.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

The only electricity pylon built over two lanes of traffic.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

This volcanic island in the Pacific just keeps growing and growing.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

This beautiful defunct water tower adds a European flair to a traditional Japanese neighborhood.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

A museum in Hokkaido is housed in a former high school. On its grounds a marker shares the awakening of a man who longs to be reunited with his soulmate in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

A bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another day.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.