Places meltingknight Wants to Go

This giant subway sculpture celebrates the fruit that inspired the theory of gravity.

A small town celebrates its cash crop with a giant highway sculpture.

This honeycomb-textured tafone looks like a petrified troll head.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

See replicas of Europe's most famous cave paintings and even some of the animals that feature in the art.

A quiet Sicilian village is home to a cafe that had an important role in "The Godfather."

Britain’s highest medieval monastery is a remote ruin nestled at the head of a valley 1,240 feet above the sea.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This grounded passenger jet is now a restaurant, complete with rows of seats and “flight attendant” servers.

This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.

A sudden, striking cluster of hills south of Padua has been attracting visitors for centuries.

A rare example of an octagonal Catholic church.

Two planes stand abandoned after the closure of an aircraft-themed restaurant.

It's said this geological anomaly was caused when the Devil took a bite out of the Irish mountainside.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

Pyongyang’s Arch of Triumph is the second tallest triumphal arch in the world.

Archaeologists are still unraveling the secrets of the brutal massacre that wiped out this ancient fort.