Places Vidiot Wants to Go

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

The mall's looks were inspired by the cowboy extras who used to meet up—and cause real trouble—at this Hollywood hub.

A unique museum where guests can rent and operate a locomotive.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

An eerie abandoned gentlemen's club built for British officials during the colonial era.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.