Places Sandi Hemmerlein Wants to Go

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

This permanent exhibition of commercial signs aims to preserve the cultural heritage of the city.

A colorful, century-old cemetery of the Yaqui Indian Tribe hidden amid the suburban sprawl of Tempe, Arizona.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

Mine your own precious stones.

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

Built to hold Gold Rush wealth, this building has withstood the test of time.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.