Places Vidiot Wants to Go

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

Mysterious installations bring levity and light to a sometimes stodgy city.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

One man's labor of love, Amman's oldest home has become a time capsule with its doors permanently open to artists and guests.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

On high feast days, the entire blue-glass front of this modern church opens up to reveal the small wooden church inside.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Considered "the most original, complete, and unimproved" circles in Aberdeenshire.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

Some people believe that this makeshift space monitoring station received transmissions from clandestine cosmonauts.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

For 60 years, skiers have calmed their nerves with cocktails hidden along these slopes.

The world's largest collection of ship figureheads includes figures from legends and history alike, from Sir Lancelot to Abraham Lincoln.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.