Places Vidiot Wants to Go

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This unique abacus hanging in the Technical University of Munich actually tells the time.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

The graveyard with the highest IQ in Britain.

The only known working replica of the world's first self-propelled vehicle.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

For over 100 years the most important physicists in the world have autographed this university wall.

An unassuming stone building houses New York City's oldest seismic station almost 30 feet below the Bronx.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

Arthur, Merlin, and Guinevere are among the largest and oldest satellite dishes on the planet.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

The oldest remaining authentic Putt-Putt course that Donald Clayton created in Ohio.

One of England's oldest ongoing games is basically a town-wide scrummage that aims to push a leather tube into a local pub.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

This holy goods emporium is where priests go for a little retail therapy to outfit their churches.