Places Vidiot Wants to Go

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."