Places sophiee Wants to Go

The last used bookstore in Downtown San Francisco is one of the smallest bookstores just about anywhere.

For nearly 50 years, this San Francisco nonprofit has been serving as a mix of recycling center and art school.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

Overflowing with shipping containers, this location has been transformed into a massive workspace for artists.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

A century-old prison in the heart of Vilnius is now a lively bar, dance club, and artist residency.

Get a taste of Chamorro cuisine, family-style, at this popular restaurant.

In the depths of Glasgow Cathedral's crypt, one pillar stands out from all others.

This fresco inside a Serbian cave church has been a source of disagreement.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.