Places Edited by Sandi Hemmerlein

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

360-degree virtual reality chamber physically immerses scientists into their data.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.