Places Sandi Hemmerlein Wants to Go

The loneliest island in New York.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."