Places Vidiot Wants to Go

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

Wayne Newton's sprawling estate is now open for visitors to catch a glimpse of his "heart and soul."

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.