Places Sandi Hemmerlein Wants to Go

A two-way chairlift system between Zugliget and the highest point in the city.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

Sojourn to the past at this residence teeming with 1950s memorabilia.

Legend says one of the world's largest marine geysers is actually a whale that got wedged within the rocks.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.