Places SokolovAlex Wants to Go

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

One of the oldest masonic temples in the Netherlands, built in 1757.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.

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

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.