Places Vidiot Wants to Go

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

This collection of unique liquids allows visitors to wander the waters of Iceland's glaciers.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

It's a mystery how these curious columns wound up in an Edinburgh suburb.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.