Places Sandi Hemmerlein Wants to Go

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Famous and forgotten figures lie beneath the faded headstones and decaying planks of wood.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

The eerie burnt-out remains of a prominent building where 30 protestors lost their lives.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.