Places meltingknight Wants to Go

This tiny hotel perched atop a 50-foot tower really puts things into perspective.

These red marks, seemingly placed at random, are in fact not.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.

Are these prehistoric metal pipes evidence of alien plumbers? Nope, but they are amazing nonetheless.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

The largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere is a spectacular sight.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A museum and memorial built amid the rubble of a town obliterated by nature.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

Take a cruise with no movement but plenty of style in this one-of-a-kind boat mall.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.