Places Sandi Hemmerlein Wants to Go

Original factory of John G. Borden who started what we know today known as Borden Dairy.

A perfectly preserved small-town pharmacy and soda fountain that opened in the early 20th century and closed in the 1980s.

This museum-within-a-museum pays tribute to "The World's Most Experienced Airline."

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

A futuristic-looking beach house built for the owner of a snack food brand.

This grand memorial remembers the 20 members of the Los Angeles Times killed when the office was bombed.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

An early 20th-century fire lookout, still in intermittent use, preserves legacy fire-locating equipment.

Two well-preserved charcoal kilns survive in a remote part of eastern Nevada.

This ”skyspace,” which bears a resemblance to a spacecraft, is designed to disappear in the presence of light.

This scenic cable car ride glides 100 feet above Mexico City.

The same family lived in this Victorian house for nearly 100 years without altering the building.

Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

A giant fiberglass Muffler Man found new life as a rodeo guardian.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

An underwater city for the dead.