Places Sandi Hemmerlein Wants to Go

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

An out of this world experience.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

Experience the glam side of air travel without leaving the ground at this speakeasy.

Exquisite irises bloom every spring in this hillside garden.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

The highest natural point in New York City and all of the Atlantic coastal plain.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

Take a leisurely ride on a 1906 cable car or a 1907 steam locomotive.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

Murder, searching for gold, and being cut in half—the memorial statue of Daniel O. McCarthy and the Pioneers of '49

A fire lookout atop a glacial pinnacle is reached by climbing three vertiginous flights of stairs.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

Anza led the first Spanish settlers from Mexico to Monterey, California in the 1770s.