Places Sarah Laskow Wants to Go

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

The last of Amsterdam's original sea level markers remaining in place.

This large copper bolt represents the benchmark for measuring sea levels in most of Europe.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This leafy estate is worth $18 million and is so grand it has two mailing addresses.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.