Places Sandi Hemmerlein Wants to Go

Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

Mid-Century Modern Meets Millionaire’s Row.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

England's "pier at the end of the universe" unites astronomy and contemporary architecture.

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.