Places Kelsey Kennedy Wants to Go

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

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

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

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

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

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