Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

An eclectic mix of influences rot together in harmony in this India necropolis.

The world's largest secondhand book market is a haven for bibliophiles and bargain hunters.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

For over 75 years, this cute stone statue has warmed the hearts of San Antonio.

A monument to the British doctor who connected mosquitoes to malaria.

The potters' quarter is packed with artists sculpting clay gods with mud from the sacred Ganges river.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.

This Himalayan airport provides one of the most difficult landings in the world.

Strange, gentle beasts resembling goat-cow hybrids roam within this patch of forest.

This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.

It took an artist 20 years to create this sprawling sculpture garden honoring the area's ancient inhabitants.

The so-called "Richest Village In China" is either a model Communist town or a dystopian sham.

Arthur, Merlin, and Guinevere are among the largest and oldest satellite dishes on the planet.

The largest radio telescope in the world searches for extraterrestrial life from the remote limestone peaks of southern China.

Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.