Places meltingknight Wants to Go

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

An underexplored, 130-foot tropical waterfall that you will have all to yourself.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

A monument to Malchik, a stray dog who lived in a Moscow metro station until his tragic death.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

The final resting place of one of Hollywood’s most prolific and talented actors is on the grounds of a California Mission.

This stack of stones honors a murdered 18th-century woman.

This enormous, elaborate tomb looks oddly out of place next to a suburban Edinburgh bowling club.

A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

One of the largest collections of holy relics in the country.

The headquarters of a pioneering cast iron and cast aluminum cookware company is in ruins, but still standing.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

The god of wine stares out at passersby on this busy Pittsburgh thoroughfare.

John Hendrix predicted the creation of the "Secret City" built as part of the Manhattan Project.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.