Places Kelsey Kennedy Wants to Go

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

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

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

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

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

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

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

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.