Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Locals visit this abandoned train tunnel where a man took his own life to ask favors of his spirit.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

An ear-piercing buzzer calls lawmakers to a vote with a series of long and short rings to form coded messages.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

Bizarre Cavern.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

A basement full of treasures lies beneath this inn that has worn many hats throughout its 140+ years.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.