Places Vidiot Wants to Go

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

This memorial honors five journalists who were killed in a mass shooting in 2018, and affirms the importance of the first amendment.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

Like your grandma's attic—if your grandma were a little weirder, extremely well-traveled, and had a great eye for art.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

The eccentricities of a former lord include painted pigeons of his manor house, a series of pointless plaques, and a folly built simply to peeve the public.

The famous greeting card maker owns a collection of paintings by the famed surrealist.

Feast on some of the finest momos in all of Queens.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

This museum-within-a-museum pays tribute to "The World's Most Experienced Airline."

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

A portal into the bricked up canal that runs through the heart of Washington D.C.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.