Places Kelsey Kennedy Wants to Go

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

The world's longest known cave system.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

This humble star-gazing center touts itself as the "Birthplace of American Astronomy."

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.