Places Vidiot Wants to Go

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.