Places Vidiot Wants to Go

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Dozens of striking Indian symbols cover the second-floor hallways of this rural courthouse.

The failure of one component toppled this entire bridge during rush hour.

One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This moving cemetery sphere is a slowly rolling stone.

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.

The former broadcast site has been reimagined as a museum about the medium.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

A gas station has taken the place of the home of the 19th American President.

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

This NASA test station is home to some of the world’s largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities.

This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

The site of Neil Armstrong's first flight is marked by a full on replica of the moon landers.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.