Places Vidiot Wants to Go

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

This historic spot was where America's involvement in the Vietnam War officially came to an end.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

Brace yourself for the slowest, scariest, most spectacular drive, down the Drakensberg Escarpment.

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

This sculpture of a fisherman spent six years at the bottom of the Schuylkill River.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.