Places meltingknight Wants to Go

The world's "leaniest" tower encourages you to test the gravity of its situation.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

An outback test site for the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

The oldest surviving mosque in the UAE has mysterious origins and unusual architecture.

This restaurant is proud to be built atop a burial ground.

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

The ancient abodes are a testament to human ingenuity amid harsh climates.

This beautiful arched gate is all that remains of the fortress the ancient mountaintop town of Amadiya once was.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.

The world's tallest boat lift stands as a massive piece of industrial tourism.

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.