Places kcstarheel Wants to Go

This beloved American snack was conceived by a hungry coal miner.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

Genoa's collection of over 4 million zoological, botanical, and geological specimens from around the world.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

The humble beginnings of one of America’s greatest songsmiths.

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

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

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