Places meltingknight Wants to Go

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

Looking like nothing more than a cartoon deserted island, this tiny sandbar is home only to a single umbrella.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

A violent name for a violent volcano.

It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.

English-speaking soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II, before the town’s name changed.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

A wooden street sign is the last remnant of this 400-year-old alleyway.

Over a decade ago, painted penguins mysteriously appeared around Berwick-upon-Tweed for no apparent reason.

"The Donut" was built as part of an expensive, ill-fated engineering endeavor.

This captivating Bronze Age timber circle spent centuries concealed by the tides.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

Discarded animal sculptures stand forgotten by an abandoned aquarium and water park in Bosque de Chapultepec.

This vintage gem is one of the oldest surviving purpose-built movie palaces in Scotland.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.