Places Kelsey Kennedy Wants to Go

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.