Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Along a rail-biking route, giant insects house a two-story restaurant.

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

These giant grain silo portraits capture elements of rural life in Australia.

These quintessentially English stepping stones were built for Victorian tourists.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

This half-ton piece of the Alps sits at the base of the CN Tower.

A sapling of the legendary tree where conquistador Hernán Cortés sat and wept after an Aztec uprising.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

In Spain, the ruins of a Roman military camp sit along a flooded section of a river.

The tallest mountain in mainland Netherlands isn't actually very tall.

This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed.

Squeezing inside this deep, narrow canyon reveals a festival of desert colors.

Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

A hotel masquerading as a medieval castle overlooks a Mexican city.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

Known as the "Hobbit Houses," these storybook homes look like they're straight out of the Shire.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.

Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.

The site of an atrocity that would be used to justify Britain’s conquest of India.