Places Vidiot Wants to Go

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

Sleep in the hay, spin the wheel and eat grain pellets to your heart's delight.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This historic electric train has operated with regularity since the early 1900s.

What many consider the original prime meridian and westernmost point of the old world.

This portrait of Philip V is always hung upside down, in a protest three centuries in the making.

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

An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.

Haunting monument to the German Jewish philosopher who died while fleeing fascism.

An abandoned airport in the middle of nowhere.

This panoramic lift provides a futuristic ride up San Pedro Mountain.

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.

A pastry shop specializing in Sephardic sweets serves historic recipes in Ribadavia’s Jewish quarter.

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.

"Satisfying" is a good way to describe these beautifully aligned rows of Spanish mills.