For those who like to peregrinate without actually going anywhere, virtual reality is just the ticket, the next best thing to astral projection (something I’m dying to try). With a proper V.R. headset, 3D time travel and exotic exploration have never been more available, enabling psychonauts to tune in, turn on, and trip out.

Sure, you may look like a bug-eyed mutant to the snoopy neighbors as you weave your head this way and that, but what care you for the opinion of surface dwellers? You are off on inner voyages that can transport visitors to the surface of Mars, the rusty intestines of the Titanic, the sacred chambers of an Egyptian tomb, or the drafty recesses of Count Dracula’s castle.