Places meltingknight Wants to Go

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

An ideal wedding spot that is almost too ideal.

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.

Locals call it the "Give Peas a Chance" bridge because of its distinct graffiti.

A memorial to the politician who became Great Britain's first fatality to be caused by a locomotive.

The Netherlands is home to a bridge printed out of reinforced concrete.

Largest illuminated advertisement sign in the world.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.