Places Sandi Hemmerlein Wants to Go

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Vintage cars and motorcycles race for glory in a throwback motorsport celebration on the Jersey shore.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.

A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.

Four antique Baldwin trains are kept on display in the Mal Tiempo train depot.

This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.

An old slave lookout in Cuba's historic sugar cane fields.