Places meltingknight Wants to Go

This beautiful and unmissable little museum is full of fascinating artifacts from Mesoamerica's great civilizations.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

Hidden behind West Philadelphia rowhomes is a haven for migratory and local bird species both ordinary and rare.

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

This remote sandstone cliff has one of the richest collections of Livonian petroglyph marks.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

Swim or sail to this pie-slinging boat off the coast of St. Thomas.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

An extraordinary mechanical calculator designed by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

This natural crater along the coast of Jersey may take its name from the devil statues who have watched over it.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Talula the swan has been welcoming visitors to Elk Rapids, Michigan, for more than four decades.

This vacant station is a relic of harvest processing techniques of the mid-20th century.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

The monument marks where Simón Bolívar and his Spanish adversary Pablo Morillo met to have a drink together.

This iconic pavilion in Barquisimeto has a roof made from 16 “petals” that open and close depending on the weather.