Places meltingknight Wants to Go

This unique temple complex remains off the typical tourist trail.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Worship at the altar of seafood at this shop housed inside the town's oldest stone church.

An architectural marvel built by a nearly forgotten Canadian Quaker sect, the Children of Peace.

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

Thanks to its curved shape, this incredibly durable dam "whispers" to visitors.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

This eccentric folly house was designed by Romanian thinker Bogdan-Petriceicu Hasdeu, with a helping hand from his deceased daughter's spirit.

These spectacular ruins were built by Spanish padres in the 17th century.

The fighters and conspirators that won independence for Paraguay held secret meetings at this historic house.

An unlikely neo-Gothic castle in the Paraguayan countryside.

The ship that got left behind.

Megapodes incubate their eggs using the heat of an active volcano on this Pacific isle.

Model aircraft soar over 360-degree views of the countryside at the start of England's oldest road.

The final resting place of a prominent Chippewa chief and several Native American children.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

Legend says this demonic carving inside a medieval cathedral was one of Satan's minions.