Places meltingknight Wants to Go

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

The beloved war-time celebrity spent time in the area before retiring to the Edinburgh Zoo.

A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

Pasadena glamour turned government issue.

A California city claims to be the home of a fast-food classic.

This retro underwater observation tower would make the perfect lair for a sea-loving villain.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

This 1776 beacon on the coast of Wales is said to have a ghost called Raymond, the last lighthouse keeper.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

This memorial, built by fascist dictator General Franco in 1960, has been repurposed by the people of Catalonia.

A whimsical garden of outsider art in the Spanish countryside.

Legend says entire herds of cattle have disappeared within this boulder-strewn landscape.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

At the top of a local ski mountain is a hidden cemetery containing the graves of just two soldiers.

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.

The oldest structure in a beachside California city was built to serve eight students.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

The biologist's fossilized headstone was meant to reflect his love of nature. Its, ahem, unusual shape is probably just a coincidence.