Places Sandi Hemmerlein Wants to Go

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.