Places meltingknight Wants to Go

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

The largest collection of artifacts from the Olmec civilization, the mother culture of Mesoamerica.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

This incredible second-century sculpture depicts a trio of gods worshipped by the ancient Romans.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

One of only two places in the world where two rivers cross each other without the waters mixing.

An abandoned football stadium with a tragic past.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

You can enjoy a (possibly haunted) stay at the medieval Norman castle that was once a favorite hunting lodge of King John.

This Turkish cave boasts some rather bizarre associations with the King of Mount Olympus.

This nightmarish children's plaything was left grotesque to help kids conquer their fear.

This amazing ancient cave was kept secret for seven years to protect it from the public.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

Its collection distills more than 60 years of pop culture in Japan, from Godzilla to Hulk Hogan.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

A MiG-17 fighter jet sits atop this memorial to the indiscriminate bombardment of Hargeisa.

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

China has many statues of the general and war god, but none are as epic as this.