Places Sandi Hemmerlein Wants to Go

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Townhouse facade doubles as an RMS Titanic Memorial.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Annual Easter display made up of thousands of hand-painted eggs.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.