Places Vidiot Wants to Go

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Residents of this seaside village are building a miniature 1:10 scale version of their historic town.

A unique flight of canal locks that owe their form to 19th-century cost-saving measures.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.