Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Over 4,700 miles of trees being planted to hold back the desert.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

A tree seems to grow from the ocean floor on this strange strip of sand slowly being overtaken by the sea.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

An abandoned lighthouse off the beaten path, one of the few surviving pre-World War II Japanese structures, offers a beautiful view.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

This modernist tower was saved by a fraternity with a 500-year-old penchant for shooting at wooden parrots.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

The world's largest commercially available hamburger is complete with 15 pounds of lettuce, 30 pounds of bacon, and 36 pounds of cheese.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.