Places meltingknight Wants to Go

The largest of only eight working transporter bridges left in the world.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

There once was a man named Lear / Who found limericks so dear / His final resting space / Is an unusual place / Most people don’t know he’s here.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

This crumbling headstone commemorates the first death by tiger in Britain's history.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

A cluster of headless, armless sculptures looms within a popular Polish park.

This fortress in Honduras was built to resist pirates, but its builders had more to fear from the British.

Mesoamerican monoliths and zoomorphic stones covered in royal visages, ancient mythology, and grand celestial events.

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

The remnants of an archaeological camp stand within Tikal National Park.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A rotting air force base is now home to rare birds and scarce plants.

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

If you can look past the nearby sewer pipes, this urban sinkhole grotto is a mini-paradise.