Places Sandi Hemmerlein Wants to Go

Raised catwalk walk through the trees alongside a river starting from an abandoned and colorful pumping station.

Founded by Cliff Barackman of 'Finding Bigfoot' fame, this museum is dedicated to the study of North America's unacknowledged hairy woodland hominids.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Founded in 1933, this creamery has produced world-class cheeses and was the first American creamery to win a world champion title at the World Cheese Awards.

This lighthouse has been in operation since 1881, with an interesting connection to the RMS Titanic.

Meet California's largest recorded lodgepole pine: an 11-story-tall, 440-year-old living relic that has survived centuries of disaster to rank among the world's greatest forest giants.

A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.

This house made famous by the 1980s movie is now a restaurant filled with Top Gun memorabilia

The junction point of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, resurveyed and remonumented in 2016

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

Definitely not a clown bar.

Here began Southern California's oil boom over 100 years ago

Vintage steam trains that still run through a pre-Civil War tunnel

An antiquarian horologist’s mysterious home in Old Goucher.

A merry-go-round that became a rallying point for the early Civil Rights Movement.

The only perennial creek in the Mojave Preserve is also the site of an 1860s fort.

Steel rings embedded in rock enable hikers to ascend a picturesque slot canyon in the Mojave Preserve.

Behold the uncanny sight of the Golden Arches—rendered in black.

This stately brick building once provided supplies and equipment to lighthouses across the northeast during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.