Places Vidiot Wants to Go

A journey to a hand-crafted island involves a trip across this lattice bridge.

The oldest hotel in West Virginia is reportedly frequented by ghosts.

Step back in time at this historic variety store, packed with items from a bygone era.

A memorial honoring those who perished in one of the worst construction disasters in U.S. history.

Try maple leaf tempura at the trailside shop that brought it back from oblivion.

This fourth-generation family business is reviving West Virginia's historic tradition of salt-making.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

This renovated Art Nouveau bathroom from 1905 is worth the price of admission.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.