Places Vidiot Wants to Go

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The tiniest little stage in New York.

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

A historic hill of tall tales, with one rather special tree.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

This secret garden has bloomed into London's most unique hub of urban creativity.