Places meltingknight Wants to Go

One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.

One of the largest lenses of its kind ever created, this former ship beacon has been brought down to Earth.

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.

A roadside attraction fit for a giant.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

This 135-year-old weather station studied the effects of the climate on human health.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

A surprising, but overlooked example of geology in the middle of the nation’s capital.

Once considered a marvel of engineering, there are now doubts about the structural integrity of this 5.4-mile cable-stayed bridge.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

Shop the world's largest number of ice cream flavors, ranging from delightful to downright bizarre.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

Trek through the jungle on a boat and a swinging bridge and you'll be rewarded with these refreshing, if pungent, mineral pools.

This massive monument has been telling the time for 150 years—at a slight angle.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

The lake that fills and empties itself at random.

A memorial to a goat culled during a foot and mouth disease outbreak guards a series of fantastical caves.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

The ruins of a 15th-century church once home to priests who prayed for a single family's salvation.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.