Places Sandi Hemmerlein Wants to Go

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

Tijuana's legendary jai alai or "basque ball" palace is now a massive music venue.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

Behold the rickety glory of one of the oldest roller coasters still standing.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.