Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Impressive mining ruins overlook a spectacular view of Ireland's Copper Coast.

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

The forgotten tomb of the Peruvian rubber baron who was the inspiration for Werner Herzog's epic film "Fitzcarraldo."

The Sun, Moon, and stars peacefully coexist with animals, humans, and their tools at this surprising sculpture park.

This reserve is the only place in the world where you can see the Barasingha swamp deer in the wild.

Standing stones found on a construction site are re-erected.

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

This heart-shaped island looks substantially less lovely after a recent bulldozing project.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.