Places Vidiot Wants to Go

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."

A showcase of engineering might that was also symbolic of westward expansion.

One of several Lilliputian portals that are ready to transport passengers to other dimensions, if they can find them.

It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.