Places Sandi Hemmerlein Wants to Go

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

It would be a crime to miss it.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

The freeway that never was.

Neo-cave art on the macro scale.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

A bronze sculpture of Lenin’s likeness outside Havana surrounded by 12 human figures in solidarity with the Bolshevik Revolution.

Cuba's historical trains remind natives of their country's sugary sweet past.

A Spanish-style estate that has traded black ties for rock concerts.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.