Places SokolovAlex Wants to Go

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

An artist's vision for connectivity spans seven continents and 16 countries.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.