Places meltingknight Wants to Go

A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.

The ancient necropolis houses the immense rock-cut tombs of four Persian kings.

Experience the life of an 1800's lumberjack at this interactive museum that is only accessible by railroad.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

At first glance, little checkered structures on the hillside look like they house the living, not the dead.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

A hotly contested micro-nation off the coast of Montserrat.

A flower grows on this giant stone that is said be able to control minds.

This mountaintop lake bubbles and steams in a perpetual boil, thanks to its direct link to the Earth's interior.

A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.